Pelvic and Hernial Therapeutics. Principles and Methods for Remedying Chronic Affections of the Lower Part of the Trunk, Including Processes for Self-Cure.

viii, 282 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles, red page ridges. Illustrations in text. An overview designed to promote understanding of the function of the pelvic region and the chronic disorders associated with it, along with suggestions for therapeutic regimens. Hoolihan 3433: "Taylor dismisses trusses, pessaries and other apparatus for the treatment of hernia as palliative and not remedial, maintaining that such remedies address the external effects of a pathological process and not its cause. He argues that 'pelvic pathology' has traditionally been limited to 'the patient's subjective symptoms of discomfort and disability,' and has thus ignored 'the causative physiological defects' from which it arises. As he does in his treatise on gynecological diseases, Taylor argues that disorders of the pelvic region are caused either by impediments to blood circulation or by 'faults of position,' i.e., the displacement of pelvic organs by maldistribution of weight upon the pelvic region. Hernia falls into the latter category, and, according to Taylor, is the result of 'disproportion between causes urging the mobile mass of digestive organs and their appendages, downward, and those opposing or restraining the downward movement'."