An account of a particular kind of rupture, frequently attendant upon new-born children; and sometimes met with in adults; viz. that in which the intestine, or omentum, is found in the same cavity, and in contact with the testicle / [Percivall Pott].
- Percivall Pott
- Date:
- 1757
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of a particular kind of rupture, frequently attendant upon new-born children; and sometimes met with in adults; viz. that in which the intestine, or omentum, is found in the same cavity, and in contact with the testicle / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1 [ 20 ] Upon this divifion of the facculus if will alfo appear, that the teflicle and e- pididymis within it have no other co¬ vering than what they brought out from the abdomen, and that notwithftanding they are protruded into, and apparently contained within the facculus, yet they ft ill are (as they were originally) behind the peritoneum. Whether it is by the weight of the teflicle now become pendulous from the fpermatic chord, or from the a&ion of the abdominal mufcles, or from what other caufe, I know not 5 but foon after the tefticles are got fairly into the fcro- tum, the orifices and pafiages to thefe faccnli are clofed, and obliterated in fuch manner, that neither a probe, nor a fluid i ■* will now pafs from the belly into them, nor from them into the belly. The paffage of communication be¬ comes clofe fome way above the epidi¬ dymis, tunity of examining it, I can fhew it to them, in more than one fubjett, which I keep by me.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31922739_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
