The Radical Treatment of Hydrocele
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necessitate the re-opening of the wound to relieve tension by turning out blood clots. In one of my cases, the patient was a Chaube Brahman, at 32 vears of exceptionally good health, a professional athlete; with' no history of syphilis or any other constitutional taint. The hydrocele was one-sided, fairly large, of five years standing, and it had been tapped from time to time. The operation was performed in the usual way: the sac much thickened was everted after being incised and kept so by two catgut stitches ; no arterial spurting was noticed but general oozing from the cut edges in the incision was rather free
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