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

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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$r [ 31 ] fome improvements j and as I can now fpeak pofitively to its fuccefs,'I thought it right to give it to the publick, who \ i . are always intituled to every benefit ari- fing from the labours of every rhan whom they have honoured with any degree of f confidence, and this as well oh a principle of humanity as of gratitude. What I have faid of it in the general treatife is in the'following words, p. 176. “ The point to be aimed at, is to excite fuch a degree of inflammation both, in the tunica vaginalis and tunica albugi- nea, as fliall occafion a general and per- fe<fl cohefion between them ; • and this, if poffible, without the produftion of flough or abfeefs j without the hazard “ of gangrene, and without that degree of ** fymptomatic fever which now and then ** attend both the cauflic and the, inci- 's fion ; and which, when they do hap— pen,$