Chapter III: AND the same is the Method of Cure, in Case of an Intestinal

RUPTURE, otherwise call’d ENTEROCELE, i. e. HERNIA; only, That a _Truss_ is now more convenient than a SWATH: However in this Place I would observe that all _Tumours_ of the SCROTUM, are not to be mistaken for the present _Bursten Case_; because the same may also happen from a _Watry Humour_ collected in that Part, which is more properly call’d an HYDROCELE, and is easily distinguish’d from the ENTEROCELE: Insomuch, that, in this _Condition_ the _Tumour_ is most commonly, in one part of the SCROTUM, I mean in its _Right_ or _Left Side_; when also the fallen _Intestines_ may be perceiv’d by the _Touch_; as the RUPTURE or _Hole_ through which the _Intestines_ are fallen, may be by the _Finger_: Whereas in the _Case_ of an HYDROCELE, the _Tumour_ is commonly in _both Sides_, and the SCROTUM is more puffed up, neither is there any _Hole_ of a RUPTURE to be found in the PERITONÆUM. The _Cure_ of which _Case_ depends entirely upon proper _Absorbents_, or _Discutients_, for resolving and drying up the WATER, or dissipating the WIND, and afterwards upon _Corroboratives_ for confirming the _Parts_. But after All, in the mean Time this _Tumour_ is also sometimes, upon occasion, properly open’d by a LANCET to evacuate its _preternatural Contents_.