Observations on the different methods made use of for the radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry rupture, and on other diseases of the testicle; to which is added a comparative view of the different methods of cutting for the stone. With some remarks on the medicines generally exhibited as solvents of the stone / by William Dease.

  • William Dease
Date:
1782
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Credit: Observations on the different methods made use of for the radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry rupture, and on other diseases of the testicle; to which is added a comparative view of the different methods of cutting for the stone. With some remarks on the medicines generally exhibited as solvents of the stone / by William Dease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 [ Ho ] fa! bad quality of food to occafion the (tone •f’, no people in Europe fhould be more affli&ed with the diforder than the poor of Ireland ; for, throughout the whole kingdom, the poor live, the year round, moftly on potatoes ; and fometimes, they have fuch a fcarcity of milk, that they are obliged to eat them with only fait: And, even among the manufacturers in cities they live very badly, their food being generally of the coarfer kind of fait meats, and they feldom indulge themfelves with any li¬ quor, but the worft of fpirits, or whifkey, to which they are in general greatly addict¬ ed, and drink it frequently to excefs. Now the only people in thefe kingdoms, who live fo poor, and, as I hear, fo very like the Irith, are the Highlanders 3 and, by all accounts they are very fubjeCt to the ftone * fo that, I believe, it will be found very dif¬ ficult, and attended with great uncertainty, to account, on any lure principles, for the frequency of the ftone in one country more than in another. It f This has been efteemed, among the German and Dutch au¬ thors, as the more frequent caufe of the ftone ; but Platner thinks it may fometimes arife from a natural defeat in the organi2ation ef the kidneys and bladder. Vide his Inftituc Chirurg. p. 834.
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