Copy 1, Volume 1
The chirurgical works of Percivall Pott / [Percivall Pott].
- Percivall Pott
- Date:
- 1771-1775
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The chirurgical works of Percivall Pott / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *3 ] thorax by the air, and the adtion of the mufcles of refpiration, foon pufli them forth from the belly, through the muf- cle, into the groin. % f The fafe and certain pallage of the tefticles from the abdomen into the fcrotum, is a circumftance of great con- fequence; and, like every other part of the animal ceconomy, is provided for, and executed with fuch order and beauty, as to befpeak its great director. I have already taken notice, that on each fde, of the lower part, of the in- fide of the cavity of the belly, was a fmall opening; that in many fubjedts I could, without force or breach, pafs a fmall probe, by means of this orifice, through the aperture in the tendon of the abdominal mufcle; and that the probe, when thus pafied, appeared to be enveloped in a very fmall membranous facculus, formed by a produdtion of the peritoneum. By](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30532383_0001_0209.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
