Another more easie and safe way to restore the Gut and Kall.
THeodoricke and Guido have invented another way of performing this operation. * 1.1 They put backe into their places the Gut and Kall being fallen downe, the Pati∣ent being so placed, that his thighs are high and his head is somewhat low; then they draw aside the lower portion of the production of the Peritonaeum; and also the spermaticke vessels, and cremaster muscle to the Ischium; then by ap∣plying a causticke fitted to the age and disease, they burne the other part of the pro∣cesse, directly perpendicular to the share-bone, where the Gut did fall downe. Then they pull off the eschar thus made with a knife even to the quicke, then they apply an∣other causticke in the same place, which may go even to the bone, then procure the falling of this Eschar made on the foresaid processe. And afterwards they heale the ulcer which remaines, which presently contracting somewhat a thicke Callus, so keeps up the Guts and Kall, that it bindes them from falling down into the Cod. This way of restoring the Gut and Kall, though it be safer and more facile; yet the Chirur∣gion must not attempt it, if the Guts or Kall sticke so fast, agglutinated to the processe of the Peritonaeum, that they cannot be severed, nor put backe into their places (for from the guts so burnt and violated, greater mischiefe would ensue) if by the broken and too much dilated processe, the bodies thereby restrained, make an exceeding great tumor by their falling downe; if the testicle yet lying in the groine as in a Bubo∣nocele, a kinde of Enterocele, being not yet descended into the Scrotum or Codde; if the Patients be not come to such age as they can keepe themselves from stirring, or hold their excrements whiles the operation is performed.