Cases of diseased bladder and testicle / [William Wadd].

  • William Wadd
Date:
1815
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Credit: Cases of diseased bladder and testicle / [William Wadd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Having remarked that the congenital hernia is a dis- covery of modem times, and having in the present in- quiry, referred in a very general manner to most of what has been written on the subject, I cannot withhold from the reader the interest I felt from one part of the controversy between Mr. Pott and Dr. W. Hunter. Mr. Pott, in his otherwise elegantly written performance, uses the word congenial hernia. It surprized me much, that so improper a term should have passed unnoticed during the heat of the controversy, and even till Mr. Laurence published his valu- able and comprehensive Prize Essay in 1807, in which, with little ceremony to a name, the just pride of St. Bartholomew’s, he calls the term adopted by Mr. Pott, “ perfectly absurd, as applied to this or any other rupture.” The use of the term is, however, very neatly ac- counted for, but by no means defended, in a candid re- view of Mr. Laurence’s Work, in the 19th Vol. of the Medical and Physical Journal. Since that time Mr. Lau- rence has published a second edition, in which he ex- presses the same surprize. This shews that the perusal of periodical works ought not to be considered as mere frivolous employment; they often furnish the means of