Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . and the latter function was restored without muchloss. Hydrocele.—Hydrocele is an accumulation of yellow se-rous fluid in the tunica vaginalis testis (refer to the engra-vings in next paee), or peritoneal covering of the is a disease incident to every period of life, but morecommonly met with in grown persons. The ordinary for-mation of hydrocele is unattended with pain;
Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . and the latter function was restored without muchloss. Hydrocele.—Hydrocele is an accumulation of yellow se-rous fluid in the tunica vaginalis testis (refer to the engra-vings in next paee), or peritoneal covering of the is a disease incident to every period of life, but morecommonly met with in grown persons. The ordinary for-mation of hydrocele is unattended with pain; and the pa- 70 A POPCLAR TREATISE tient accidentally discovers the existence of the swelling,but oftentimes not until it has attained a considerablemagnitude. The tumor, when large, produces an un-sightly appearance, and forms a hindrance to sexual inter-course, from the integuments of the penis being involvedtherein, and thereby preventing a perfect erection of thatorgan. The disease may appear to originate spontane-ously; but it is usually traceable to some bruise, blow, orother external injury to the part. The two following drawings exhibit the outward andinward appearance of the scrotum in hydrocele:. The Scrotum largely dis- The Scrotum distended to its tended. utmost extent, and the position of the fluid shown. The penis isalmost always more or less drawnup, and in severe cases it appearsdrawn up so as scarcely to be per-ceptible. The notion that the cure of hydrocele depends on pro-moting adhesion to the sides of the tunica vaginalis withthe testicle is somewhat upset by several preparations inthe London hospitals, exhibiting the tunic taken from per-sons in whom a radical cure was effected by injection, andin whom no fluid was reproduced; nor were the sides ofthe said investment at all adherent with the testicle, butapart, as in the healthiest individual. Hitherto surgeons, ON VENEHEAL DISEASES. 71 acting on the aforesaid notion, with a view to obliteratethe cavity,
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