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].

  • Percivall Pott
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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    § \ ' ^ [ 7 ] in the middle of the tunica vaginalis, (like a clapper within a bell) and has no connedlion with it I mean, that all the fuperior, anterior, and lateral parts of the tunica vaginalis are loofe from, and un- connedled with the tellicle, which is at the fame time firmly united to its pofle- rior part, in fuch manner, that if the cavity of the tunica vaginalis was to be diidended with wind, fuch wind would occupy, or fill all the loofe, and uncon- nedled part, and produce a tumefadtion not unlike to a hydrocele, while the te- fllcle .would be ’found firmly and im- I moveably attached to the hinder part of the faid cavity fo diftended. 1. To prevent the accretion of thefe coats in thofe parts where they ought to be unconnedled, and perhaps for fome other purpofes, the cavity of the tunica vaffi- ■nalis is Turnifhed with a fine lymph COD-