A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . 762 DISEASES OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS. of the enlarged scrotum. An indistinct feeling of fluctuation is noticedand the upper end of the tumor is rounded and does not extend up-wards into the inguinal canal. The swelling increases slowly frombelow upward and not from above downwards as a scrotal scrotum, if made tense, will transmit the light of a candle held onthe side of it opposite to the observers eye. This test
A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . 762 DISEASES OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS. of the enlarged scrotum. An indistinct feeling of fluctuation is noticedand the upper end of the tumor is rounded and does not extend up-wards into the inguinal canal. The swelling increases slowly frombelow upward and not from above downwards as a scrotal scrotum, if made tense, will transmit the light of a candle held onthe side of it opposite to the observers eye. This test is best made bylooking through a tube of paper pressed against the scrotum and heldagainst the eye of the surgeon. Hydroceles with thick walls or con-taining bloody or cloudy fluid will not transmit lightFig. 428. so as to give a pink color at the bottom of the tube. A hydrocele has no transmitted pulsation on cough-ing as a hernia ; and has not the weight of a chron-ically inflamed testicle or one the seat of a sarco-matous degeneration. Large hydroceles may becomplicated with inguinal hernia; they may causethe penis to be so covered with the skin drawn overit
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