A New Operation for Radical Cure of Hydrocele

At the beginning of the present year I introduced an operation, which is in principle entirely distinct from the one previously practised. The first steps are the same as in the operation for excision of the sac. After careful shaving and thorough washing and cleansing of the parts, the scrotum is made tense by being firmly grasped in one hand, an incision is made along the whole length of it's long axis, the tunica exposed, and the testicle almost entirely withdrawn from the scrotum; then the tunica having been punctured with the knife, the puncture is enlarged with the scissors to a sufficient extent to allow of the testicle being drawn out through the opening. This having been done, the parietal tunica is turned inside out, and the opposite edges of the incision in the sac united behind the epidydimis by a single catgut