The chirurgical works of Percivall Pott: with his last corrections : to which are added, a short account of the life of the author, a method of curing the hydrocele by injection, and occasional notes and observations (Volume 2).

  • Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788.
Date:
1819
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    been injected, with a view to closing or soldering broken lym- phatics; tedious and painful operations have been practised, for the eradication of imaginary cysts; directions have been given to evacuate the water at different times, lest the patient's strength should fail, or his health suffer, by its being done too suddenly; and the testicles being supposed to be frequently spoiled, by long laying in the water, castration has often been performed in the simple hydrocele. Dr. Monro (the father) who is professor of anatomy at Edin- burgh, and Mr. Samuel Sharp, late surgeon to Guy's hospital, are almost the only writers who have sensibly and rationally explained the true nature a*nd theory of these diseases: to them the profession is greatly obliged for having thrown much light on the subject, and for having furnished their readers with more just ideas than any others. SECT. III. The spermatic vessels, like most of the contents of the abdo- men, lie behind the peritoneum, enveloped in the common tela cellulosa, or what used to be called the cellular appendix of the peritoneum. The arteries, which are two, arise from the trunk of the aorta, in the midway between the emulgent and lower mesenteric. At their origin they are very small, and, contrary to all the other arteries of the body, they seem rather to increase in diameter as they descend. In their p*assage downward, they im- part several branches to the cellular membrane which invests them; and before they arrive at the testicles, they are divided into four or five principal ones; one of these goes to the epididymis, the others to the testis; the latter having passed the tunica albuginea, testiculus ei innataret, ne in posterum denuo descenderet aqua acu incur- vato ac filo reduplicato universam hanc tunicam (prxter vasa seminalia) ap- ■' prehendi et mediocriter constrinxi, atque ligavi. Fab, Hudaituu,