Medical directions for the use of navigators and settlers in hot climates .... / [Thomas Masterman Winterbottom].

  • Thomas Masterman Winterbottom
Date:
1803
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Credit: Medical directions for the use of navigators and settlers in hot climates .... / [Thomas Masterman Winterbottom]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6. A large pewter fyringe for clyfters, having two pipes, one curved, fo that the inftrument may be ued by the patient himfelf. 7. A few fmall gallipots, phials, we &ce [Omitted after sean page 96.] } Rupture fliould be carefully diftinguifhed from Swett- iwc with INFLaAmmation of the Testicrs. The latter’ or when a man has bruifed it by falling on any hard fub- with great heat, and rednefs of the fcrotum, Sometimes the perfon hurt is fick, and vomits immediately after the accident; but this does not always prove the cafe. When the tefticle is very much inflamed, the part be- comes fo tender that the patient cannot bear the ‘leaft fenfe of weight and uneafinefs extending to the loins, and cannot ‘ftand or aa without fuffering great pain. affection, likewife in confequence of taking cold; and they are often connected with a confiderable degree of fever. This difeafe requires early and particular atten- tion, otherwife matter may form in the part, and the» fubftance of the tefticle may be injured or deftroyed. As foon therefore as the tefticle is inflamed, the man fhould confine himfelf to“his bed, and apply ten or twelve * If leeches cannot be procured, it may be advifeable, efpe- cially in robuft habits, to let blood from the arm, or from the veins of the fcrotum, . a poultice
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