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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![I [ 32 ] Upon the divifion of the flcin and membrana adipofa, a firm membranous bag or facculus came into view; this j took to be the hernial fac ; but, upon laying it open, I found that it contained a quantity of bloody ferum, a piece of omentum, a portion of inteftine, and the tefticle. fc X The tefticle and its epididymis were both naked; that is, they were not en¬ veloped in a tunica vaginalis, and the bag which contained all thefe parts was open at its upper part into the cavity of the abdomen by a narrow neck, which neck pafled through the aperture in the obliquus defcendens mufcle, by the tendon of which that ftridture was made on the inteftine which produced the fymptoms. IN this cafe neither the inteftine nor » the tefticle were got below the groin, there being no fcrotum on that fide ; but](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30532383_0001_0228.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
