Identifier: 66020330R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: A treatise on the nature and treatment of seminal diseases, impotency, and other kindred affections : with practical directions for the management and removal of the cause producing them, together with hints to young men
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Bostwick, Homer
Subjects: Genital Diseases, Male Masturbation
Publisher: New York : Burgess, Stringer
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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This plate represents the mode of introducing the trocarand canula, and the dangers incident to it. Fig. 1 showsthe instrument as first introduced ; fig. 2 shows how itshould be depressed, as soon as it enters the cavity, so asto avoid injury of the testicle, which lies behind it. Wherethe instrument enters, will also be seen the way in whichthe tunica vaginalis may be separated from its investingmembranes, which, when there is not due care observed,allows the injection to pass into the cellular tissue between,causing violent inflammation, and sometimes suppurationand sloughing. With care, no operation is safer and sim-pler than this. PLATE D.
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