Identifier: chirurgicalworks002pott (find matches)
Title: The chirurgical works of Percivall Pott ..
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788
Subjects: Surgery General Surgery
Publisher: London : Printed by Wood and Innes, Poppin's Court, Fleet Street, for J. Johnson Scatcherd and Letterman Cuthell and Martin Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme Cadell and Davies B. Crosby, and Co. John Callow John Richardson James Richardson B. Scholey E. Cox and W. Grace
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ICA VAGINALISTESTIS. The* third species of this disease, is that whichis confined to th; vaginal coat or bag, whichloosely envelopes the testicle. In the shortanatomical account already given of the pro-duction, structure, smd situation of this tunic,it has been observed, that in a natural healthystate, its cavity always contains a small quan-tity of a tine fluid, exhaled from capillary arte-ries, and constantly absorbed by vessels ap-pointed for that purpose. This fluid, in the natural small quantity, servesto keep the tunica albugiriea moist, and to pre-vent a cohesion between it and the vaginalis; aconsequence, which almost necessarily followsany such diseased state of these parts, as preventsthe due secretion of it. On the contrary, if thequantity deposited be too large, or if the regularabsorption of it be by any means prevented, itwill be gradually accumulated, and, by dis-tending the containing bag, will form the dis-ease in question. The two preceding species of hydrocele have
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oil the Hydrocele, tfc. 287 their seat in the tunica communis of the sper-matic vessels; that is, in the cellular membranewhich invests them; one by a general diffusionof lymph through all its cells ; the other by a col-lection of it, in one particular cyst or bag: thatwhich makes our present subject has no concernor connexion with that membrane at all, but isabsolutely confined to the tunica vaginalistestisn. It is a disease from which no time of life isexempt; not only adults are subject to it, butyoung children are frequently afflicted with it -9and infants sometimes born with it. What is theimmediately producing cause, I will not takeupon me to affirm. Ruysch is of opinion, thatit proceeds from a varicose state of the sper-matic vessels. What real foundation there maybe for such conjecture, I cannot say; certain it is,that the spermatic vessels are very frequently found Fallopius, although he was unacquainted with the real andtrue origin and nature of this disease, and supposed it

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