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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    I [ M ,] ©f the fefticle, its diforders, the means which wC' now find to be fuccefsful in them, and the difappointments, and dif- agreeable circumftances which fometimcs occur in them. Frabritius ab Aquapendente has been particular on what he calls the hydro- farcocele, and has given an account of his method of curing it j but whoever is ac¬ quainted with difeafes of the tefiicle, and will compare with fuch knowledge what Fabritius has faid concerning his method and its fuccefs*, will, I am inclined to be¬ lieve, think on this fubjedt as I do, which is, that the difeafe which he gives this hard complex name to, is nothing more than a true, * “ Si carnofa fimul et aquofa fit hernia ego talem “ adhibeo curam. Seco cutem et incifionem facio “ exiguam, et in loco potius altiori quam in fundo, inde turunda impofita, cum digeftivo et pus movente “ medicamento procedo, neque unquam totum pus “ extraho, fed perpetuo bonam intus relinquo, quod “ fenfim carnem corodat & ita fanat. Fab. a,r Aquapenpent'e.’'