Observations on the method of curing the hydrocele by means of a seton.
- John Howard
- Date:
- 1783
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the method of curing the hydrocele by means of a seton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![« [ 38 ] and fifty; one, who, to ufe the common phrafe, had generally lived well, andof atem- perament highly fanguinous. He was tapped in the ufual manner by a fmall trocar, and the tunica vaginalis was thereby emptied of the contained fluid -} the operation was fol- lowed by a flight pain, which gradually increafed, but without any frefh accumu- lation of any kind. The inflammatory fymptoms continued, and ran fufiiciently high, to affedt an adhefion between the two coats, and of confequence a radical cure. About two years afterward, the fame gen- tleman perceived a fecond Hydrocele on the other fide. The water was difcharged by a pundture, made with a lancet. From this operation, pain, inflammation, and diften- fion of the parts about the tefticle followed. The two former having, to all appearance, been removed by antiphlogiflics, refl, &c. the diflenfion remained; and the tunica vaginalis plainly contained fluid. He was tapped again, and the fluid evacuated was of a dark bloody kind, fomewhat like thin chocolate.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21523150_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
