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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[ 5° ] alarming fymptoms, that I could impute to this caufe. My method is this: As foon as I lay the chord fufficiently bare, I take it between my finger and thumb, and cut it off about an inch from the tefticle, if no enlargement, &c. prevents me. I then let the artery go, fo as to fee, it plainly. Then, with a crooked needle, and flat waxed ligature, I take it up, with only fo much of the furrounding parts, as will fecure the ligature from flip¬ ping off. By this means, I eafily avoid the inconvenience that may attend the other method. Those, who ufe the agarick and preffure, think they fave the patient much pain by that means : And a celebrated profeflor in Paris *, who was deemed very fuccefsful in this operation, imputed it to his difpenfing with the ufe of the needle. But where this method was pra&ifed, I have feen the patient fuffer much more, than he would by the ligature; * Dr. Petit, who, I fuppofe, adopted this method as it was ftrongly recommended by Mr. Petit, the Surgeon, who fays he has obferved matter to form in the vaginal procefs, above the ring, which he imputes to including the entire chord in the ligature.

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