A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery / By Samuel Sharp.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1750
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery / By Samuel Sharp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gature of the Spermatick Cord with its Tunica Vaginalis, as is pradtifed in Caftration; for when the Ligature drops off, it leaves a firm Cicatrix form'd by a Confolidation of thofe Parts, which refills the future Protrufion of the Vifcera. When the Cure is attempted by a Cauflic, the Patient ufes low Diet and is kept in Bed during the whole Courfe of the Treatments both which Precautions are alfo neceffary in the other Methods: When the Hernia is reduced, a Cauflic of the Size of a half Crown is laid upon that Part of the Skin which covers the Rings, and ought to be of fuch a Strength, and to lie fo long as to deflroy the Skin, the Membrana Adipoja, and the Procejfus Peri- tonceiy without injuring the Spermatick Veffels: The Slough is then either to be cut out or left to dig eft off, after which it is prefumed that the Adhefions formed to the Circumference of the Rings and to the Spermatick Veffels will prove an Obftrudlion to the * Defcent of the Vifcera; but from a great deal of Expe¬ rience it has at laft been difcovered to be a very precarious Meafure; for unlefs the Prccefs be deftroyed as well as the Fat, it will fignify nothing, and it is found very difficult to afcer- tain
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