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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1761
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the Tefticle. This is the ufual feat of the Hernia Scrotalis, as is evident not only from Diffedtjon, but alfo from the Diftindtnefs of the Hernia Intejiinalis, and the Hernia Aquo- fa, when they happen to be complicated on the fame Side of the Scrotum : Neverthelefs, as I have already aliened, it fome times happens that the InteJUne or Omentum are found within the *Tunica Vaginalis of the Tefticle, not contained in a Sac, but lying immediately in contad with the body of the Tefticle : This perhaps may appear furprifing,' not only becaufe it ne- ceffarily implies a Rupture of the Peritonaeum, but becaufe the Vifcera muft alfo be forced through the Part, which I have juft defcribed as the Septum of the Ttmicae Paginates. Every Hernia arifes from a Relaxation of the Parts through which the Intejiine and Omentum pafs, and is therefore generally occafioned by violent Efforts of the Vifcera againft the abdominal Mufcles, but fometimes the Relaxation is fo great, that the Defcent happens at a certain Period of Time, without any other evident Caufe to produce it: Some affign the 2 Thinnefs of that particular Portion of the Peritonaeum which covers the feveral I • i » 2 Wifeman, VoL 2. Page 241,5thEdtf. 8w, Paulus iEgineta, 301. Strasburg Edit. 1542. , E 4 Openings *
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