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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$prevented from rubbing rudely. over the tefticle. I As foon as the operation is finilhed I put the patient into bed, and immedi¬ ately give him twenty or twenty-live drops of tindtura thcbaica, which I re¬ peat or not, pro ne nata. About the third day the tefticle and fcrotum begin to inflame and fwell, and to put on the appearance of a hernia hu- moralis, or the fwelled tellicle which now and then' attends a clap^ and re¬ quires the fame and no other kind of treatment ; that is, fomentation, poultice, a fulpenfory bag, a cool temperate regi¬ men, and an open belly. By thefe means the inflammation is foon and eaflly appeafed. As foon as this \ end is accomplilhed, I permit the patient to get out of bed and lie on a couch, or fit$