« 
H EMATOCELE. 
élear and limpid, yet, in a very fhort fpace of time (fometimes 
in a few hours), the fcrotum becomes as large as it was = 
and palpably as full of a fluid. If a new puncture be n 
made, the difcharge, inftead of being limpid -(as before = is 
now either pure blood, or ve This is another 
loody. 
{pecies ; ; but, like the preeeding, ra So to the tunica 
vaginalis. 
er The whole vafcular ge g of the tefticle i is fometimes 
very much enlarged, ac fame time rendered fo lax 
and loofe, that the tumour proliockad thereby on sey the 
gers of an examiner, very much the appear of a 
{welling a Pg of a mere fluid, fuppofed to be Sinise 
thick or vifcid. i 
to be an hydrocele, and pierced, 
charge be mere blood. 
hematocele; and very different, = all its circumitances, 
from the two preceding. The fluid is fhed from the veffels 
of the glandular part of ‘the tefticle, and contained within the 
tunica albuginea. 
- . The fourth cents ~ a rupture a and an effufion cal 
blood from, a branc e {permatic: vein, in its p 
from the groin to the tellicle ; ; in which cafe, the extravale 
tion is made into the tunica communis, or ce cellular membran: 
inveltin the {permatic veffels.”’ 
4 four, Mr. Pott has feen fo diftin@ly and perfedlly, 
that he has not the fmalleft doubt concerning their exiftence, 
and of their difference from each other. 
He next ftates, that « the tunica means teflis, in a na- 
tural and healthy ftate, is a membrane, w ee oe 
is of no great thicknefs, It is white, or ie of a reddifh 
white colour, and its blood- i 
from the toughnefs tunic, or from the varicofe ftate 
veffel, that the. waved ss 0g if ptt by a 
ut continues Me dit. 
age 
fels. In both the Mier ieee ges 
ended with 
adthort {pace of time dift blood, which, bloodif not 
This is athird kind of lax: 
pro- ire ; butint 
fpoiled or rendered ufelefs by that kind of altera 
firft, belongs e SA a: & 
concern either with oe syst gs or with. the f fpermatic vef- j 
water, becomes in 
Y opening 
the containing cyft ;. but in neither of thefe ean pe 
€ fometimes “not 
F the 
*¢ One = hefe i is feated within ‘the tunica albuginea of 
the tefticle ; the other in the tunica communis of its veflels. 
They are neither of them. — frequent ; but when Seah 
ee they call for all our-attention. 
“Tf blood 
e greater depth of the former from the 
pots If this: be miftaken for a — RRS oe and am : 
ing be made, the difcharge. will id, 
thin ; not like to blood celiac re its me 
vefiels, bet dark and dutky in colour, and nearly of the 
confiftence of — chocolate He that which is molt fre- 
quently found in» 
r 
the of 1 rumefa ion is sabes’ as ele 
the operation. If the orifice does not os the hemorrhage 
continues, and very foon ee ing. 
“In the two precedi oe, she bloat comes from the 
ing 
tunica vaginalis, the teftis itfelf be being fafe and. 
the remedy is wt opening the —— of the faid 
hage comes eet 
f the. silbaclent-feons the convolutions of the fpermatic 
buginea 
within the tunica albuginea e divifion _— the ee 
coat can here do no goo aad: an incifion made 
albuginea can only eachende the mifchief. The ik i3 
tion made 
in it previous to the extravafation ; and cation is the 
only cure which a patient in fuch $ can | 
Open. 
‘* The laft fpeces of this — atifes _ a bor 
of a branch of the fpermatic ween the 
es in siete is os 
> ie 
fh or. difeate, 
© "The effufion or extravafation is mals into the ‘cela 
membrai’y 
