An account of the method of obtaining a perfect or radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry [sic] rupture, by means of a seton / [Percivall Pott].

  • Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788
Date:
1772
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Credit: An account of the method of obtaining a perfect or radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry [sic] rupture, by means of a seton / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A minute account of the nature and circumftances of the difeafe, would be a mere repetition of what I have already faid at large in the book referred to ; would be therefore unneceflary, and be- fide my prefent ptirpofe; a Ihort and curfory one may perhaps throw juft as much light on the fubjeft, as may ferve to render the defcription of the opera¬ tion, and the treatment after it, mor* eafily intelligible. <w The common bag in which both the tefticles are included, is called the Scro- I * turn, and conlifts of epidermis, Ikin, and that Joofe cellular membrane, which is here called the Dartos; to which might perhaps be added, the expanded fibres of the cremafter mufcle on each fide* The proper coats of the tefticle, arc, the tunica albuginea, and the tunica va¬ ginalis. The former of thefe immedi- ately