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

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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[; *3- ] on j as this is done in an inftant; while Mr. Pott employs three inftrurrients to in¬ troduce the feton. The continual contact of fuch an extraneous fubftance, as a Ikein of cotton or filk, with fo delicate a part as the tefticle, is a very unfavourable circumftance ; and if the tefticle fflould be morbidly enlarged, the;jworft confequences may be juftly apprehended. Nor , will the cure, after all, be certaiip* as there arc in- ftances of a relapfe particularly where V »• f the tunica vaginalis has been morbidly thickened, which is the more general cafe : For here,; a coalefcence between the tunica vaginalis . and - albuginea, caufed by the inflammation excited,^muft not be expeded; as it is a circumftance very rare, except in very young, fubjeds, ; that a radical cure of an hydrocele has been effeded Amply by an inflammation, without any fuppu- ration having been formed in the fack. To fuppofe that, in ancient hydroceles, where the fack of the tunica vaginalis will often-contain from a pint to near a quart of water, and is feme lines thickened, it will contrad, and uniformly adhere, by the firft intention, as wTe may fay, round a body not tnuch bigger than a walnut, although Mr. Pott

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