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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778.
Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Avail therefore begin with the Examination of that particular kind ; and the rather, becaufe the right Undemanding of this one Species of Hernia, will open the way to our conceiving rightly of all the others. The Bubonocele is formed by the defcent of the InteJUne, or Omentum, or both, through the Rings of the Abdominal Mufcles into th zTunica Vaginalis of the Spermatic Cord, and fome- times even into the Tunica Vaginalis of the Tefticle: But as this Diftin&ion between the two Tunicce Vaginales of the Cord and Tefticle, is not univerfally well known, it may be proper before I enter into the farther Confideration of this Diforder, to give an Anatomical Idea of thefe Parts. The Spermatic Artery and Vein lie conti¬ guous to the back part and outfide of the Pen- toneeum : they, in common with the Ureters and Kidneys, are contained in a cellular Membrane, which is continued all along the Spermatic Cord down to the Tefticle, and is covered externally with a thin Aponeurofis arif- ing from the parts furrounding the Ring of the Abdominal Mufcles; this external Covering is alio enveloped with the Cremafter Mufcle, and was formerly confidered as a Tunica Va- ginalis common to both the Cord and the Tefticle,