Identifier: 101503039.nlm.nih.gov
Title: The practice of surgery
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Miller, James, 1812-1864 Sargent, F. W. (Fitzwilliam), 1820-1889
Subjects: Surgical Procedures, Operative
Publisher: Philadelphia : Blanchard and Lea
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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ive, relief and diminution may beobtained from a few dependent punctures, made cautiously, however,lest asthenic and diffuse inflammatory action ensue. Elephantiasis of the Scrotum. The scrotum is liable to chronic enlargement by hypertrophy, form-ing a large, simple tumor, within which the genital organs come to bealtogether concealed, the prepuce alone remaining visible, at the lowerpart of the swelling, thickened, and warty ; and from this point theurine is discharged in a scattered stream. The affection is much morefrequent in hot climates than in this country. There is no cure, butby use of the knife. When the tumor is of no vast size, the incisionsmay be planned so as to save the penis and testicles, and dissection isconducted cautiously with this view.1 In the case of a large tumor, 1 Farther details of this affection, and of the operative treatment required, with dia-grams, will be found given by Dr. Brett, Lancet, No. 1174, p. 241. 584 ELEPHANTIASIS OF THE SCROTUM, Fia;. 242.
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Hypertrophy, or Elephantiasis of the Scrotum, ina Hindoo. Fig. 243.

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