An inaugural dissertation on that species of hernia called bubonocele : submitted to the examination of the Reverend John Ewing ..., the Trustees and Medical Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the eighth day of June, 1801, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Samuel Gartley.

  • Gartley, Samuel.
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1801
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    [13 ] their destined situation, the upper part of the canalr in a short time, begins to contract and unite. This contraction and union is continued downwards, till it comes near the testicle, where the disposition for such an union does not exist; here it loosely enve- lopes the testicle, except at its back part, where it is reflected off the tunica albuginea : this loose covering, or bag is what is called the tunica vagi- nalis testis. The testes, and their investing membrane, just described, are contained in the scrotum, which consits of the common integuments, and a loose cellular membrane, called dartos. Thus have I attempted to give as concise a description of the anatomy of the parts, as the nature of the subject would admit. We have already observed, that Bubonocele is occasioned by a protrusion of some parts of the abdominal viscera through the ring of the external oblique muscle, so as to produce an evident and preternatural swelling in the groin. The viscera, which are, most commonly, thus protruded, are some part of the intestinal canal or omentum. As all the internal surface of the abdominal muscles are lined by the peritoneum, it is evident, that the protruded parts, in their passage out of the abdomen, must either break through the peri- toneum, or carry a portion of that membrane along