A register of experiments anatomical, physiological, & pathological, performed on living animals / by James Turner.

  • Turner, James.
Date:
1839
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Credit: A register of experiments anatomical, physiological, & pathological, performed on living animals / by James Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    After much reflection upon this case, I feel in- inclined to believe that the spermatic artery and contents were instantaneously enclosed while in their normal condition. 1st. The coats of the artery had not been one moment exposed to the atmospheric air, as was the case in the carotid experiment. 2d. During its compression the instrument never touched the vessel, all the other tissues of the chord being intei*posed. 3d. Not a particle of blood or substance had been removed from the chord ; it was entire, ex- cept the very trivial perforation above described, through a part which was transparent from its thinness. The imprisoned portion of the spermatic artery was about two inches in length, and as, in the former experiment of the carotid, it was not opened and examined until after the lapse of four hours: it yielded precisely the same result, but the quantity of the fluid was very small.