The prolapsed testicle was replaced, and the wound healed without serious effect.

He again laid open his abdomen in 1880, the wound again healing notwithstanding the prolapse of the omentum.

In May of the same year he removed the right testicle, and sewed the wound up himself.

Four days later the left was treated the same way.

The spermatic cord however escaped, and a hematoma, the size of a child's head, formed on account of which he had to go to the hospital.