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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![[»] dymis, and the bag by this means forms a cavity much larger than the tefticle,, which is loofely included in it, and kept moift by a fine lymph conftantly found there. The time at which this communica¬ tion is ftopt, by the pafiage being (hut, is uncertain and various; for though it moft frequently happens foon after the tefticles are got into the ferotum, yet it is not conftantly fo; I have feen them open at four years old; and in an adult; and others have feen them open at a time between thefe: but whenever they do clofe, they form thofe bags which are then called the tunica vaginales tedium, from or to whofe cavity there is no longer any pafiage. Thus it plainly appears, that what in the foetus was the little facculus for the reception of the tefticle. and what was the loofe bag which contained it while it ftaid in the groin, (during all which time](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30532383_0001_0217.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
