A manual of military surgery, for the use of surgeons in the Confederate States Army; with explanatory plates of all useful operations . ? Plate 22. Fig. 1 represents the manner of holding the scrotum in operating forhydrocele, so as to make the sac tense by forcing all the scrum to themost dependent portion of the scrotal sac. As the testicle is adherentto the back of the sac, the forcing of the fluid in front throws a thick layerof serum in front of the testicle, shielding it from injury when the sacis punctured by the trocar. This figure also shows how the trocarshould be hold by the surgeo
A manual of military surgery, for the use of surgeons in the Confederate States Army; with explanatory plates of all useful operations . ? Plate 22. Fig. 1 represents the manner of holding the scrotum in operating forhydrocele, so as to make the sac tense by forcing all the scrum to themost dependent portion of the scrotal sac. As the testicle is adherentto the back of the sac, the forcing of the fluid in front throws a thick layerof serum in front of the testicle, shielding it from injury when the sacis punctured by the trocar. This figure also shows how the trocarshould be hold by the surgeon. The following plates show the various methods used in obliteratingthe enlarged veins in the disease called varicocele: Fig. 2.—Incision over the spermatic cord at the junction of the scro-tum with the groin, and isolation of the spermatic artery for ligation invaricocele. The incision extends through the skin, cellular tissue, su-perficial fascia, and proper fascia of the cord, separating the elementsof the spermatic cord and permitting the spermatic artery to be secured. Fig. 3 shows the operation of applying a ligature to
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