Antonio de Gimbernat's method for the strangulated femoral hernia (read 1788, London edition 1795)

A Spanish operation for one of the deadliest emergencies in eighteenth-century surgery. Instead of cutting upward and outward across dangerous vessels, Gimbernat divided the constricting structure inward at the crural ring, guided on a grooved sound. He read the method at the first public assembly of the Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos in October 1788; it was in English, printed in London, by 1795, in a translation whose preface complains that Englishmen undervalue foreign surgery.