Top left and right, arteries of the leg; centre, surgical instruments for piercing a hydrocele and extracting the fluid; bottom centre, pieces of cartilage. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

Plate LXII. Surgical techniques performed on the scrotum.

Sir James Earle. Mezzotint by R. Dunkarton after W. Beechey.

Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.

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