An account of the method of obtaining a perfect or radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry [sic] rupture, by means of a seton / [Percivall Pott].

  • Percivall Pott
Date:
1772
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Credit: An account of the method of obtaining a perfect or radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry [sic] rupture, by means of a seton / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ) [- i6 ] all the means which were cither pro- felTedlv lifed to obtain a radical cure, or which ultimately and accidentally pro< duced fuch event, were put in pradlice for three general reafons, or under the influence of three general opinions; the firfl; of which was, that the fluid found in' the fac of a hydrocele was always originally formed in the cavity of the belly, and defeended from thence into the ferotum; the fecond, that it was a difeafe of the habit, as well as of the V particular part; that is, that it was gene¬ ral, as well as local; the third,' that the colledtion of liquor found in it, was cither the necelfary caufe, or the con- fequence, of a difeafed ftate of the teflis. I From thefe flow the applications of cautery, and cauflics to the groin, and of ligatures on the fpermatic procefs. From t