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                        The Cure of Rupture

                                 BY

                        Paraffin Injections

                                 BY

                      CHARLES C. MILLER, M. D.

     _Comprising a description of a method of treatment destined
          to occupy an important place as a cure for rupture
            owing to the extreme simplicity of the technic
                and its advantages from an economic
                            standpoint_




                              CHICAGO
                  Oak Printing Co., 9 Wendell St.
                                1908




                           Copyright 1908
                        By Charles C. Miller




                             FOREWORD.


In taking up the description of the injection of paraffin for the cure
of hernia a number of remarks of a prefatory nature are called for, as
it is necessary to justify a treatment which has come in for a
considerable censure from surgeons who have had no experience with the
method and who have judged solely from a few mishaps which came to
their attention and which in no way permit of an accurate estimate of
the treatment.

Paraffin injections have been in use only a few years. When first
introduced their value for the closing of hernial openings was
mentioned. At the time the factors which made injections valuable for
such treatment were not appreciated. Paraffin was merely looked upon
as an agent which might be used to plug a hernial opening and such
plugging of a hernial opening is impracticable without histologic
changes in the tissues to cause permanent closure of the hernial
passage.


            The need which Paraffin fulfills in Hernia.

Paraffin has a tendency to