SECT. LXVII.—ON RHACOSIS, OR RELAXATION OF THE SCROTUM.
When the skin about the scrotum is relaxed without the bodies within being affected, rhacosis is formed, being a most unseemly complaint. Wherefore Leonides, having placed the man in a recumbent posture, cut off the redundant skin with a scalpel direct upon some board or some hard skin, and united the lips of the wound with sutures. But Antyllus, having first transfixed the redundant skin with three or four ligatures, cut off what was external to them with a sharp-pointed pair of scissors or scalpel, and having secured the parts with sutures, effected the cure by the treatment for recent wounds.
Commentary. Our author’s description of the two modes of performing the operation is copied by Albucasis. (Chirurg. ii, 68); and by Haly Abbas (Pract. ix, 53.)