Large scrotal tumour : new plan of operation, for large tumours / by J.M. O'Ferrall.

  • O'Ferrall, J. M. (Joseph Michael), 1790-1868.
Date:
[1845]
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Credit: Large scrotal tumour : new plan of operation, for large tumours / by J.M. O'Ferrall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [ \ i ■ to sit for hours on the chair by his bed-side, while the other ; patients congregated round the fire. It was easy to perceive that the nature and situation of his disease had affected his ' ' spirits. When questioned about his complaint he was not . loquacious, but his answers showed that it had occupied his ■thoughts and engaged his constant attention ; for his descrip- tion of its course, and his remarks on its present condition were unusually clear and consistent for his class in life. It was ten years, he said, since he first perceived a hard ; swelling on the cord, the size of a •marble, about an inch above the left ’ 1 testicle ; as it was unattended by pain, i' it gave him no concern, and was allowed I'to increase in size for four years, I when he came to Dublin for advice. ; After remaining for six -weeks in one I of the hospitals, he became tired of remedies, and returned again to the country ; the tumour continued pro- gressively to enlarge, until it acquired the size and appearance represented in the annexed sketch. The last hemorrhage from the veins of this tumour, amounted, he was con- vinced, to two quarts of blood. The ' exhaustion was very great, and rendered him for some time ■unable to pursue his avocations ; the dread of its recur- irence, as weil as the hindrance to his business, occasioned 'by the weight of the tumour, rendered him very anxious for ] relief. He was^ now directed to have nourishing diet, and • chalybeate medicines were employed with a view to his : anmmic state. In the meantime the tumour was carefully examined by ^ several surgeons of great experience, the majority of whom