The works of the late Joseph Else, F.R.S. surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and member of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris : containing a treatise on the hydrocele, and other papers on different subjects in surgery. To which is added, an appendix, containing some cases of the hydrocele, with a comparison of the different methods of treating it by caustic and seton by Geo. Vaux, surgeon.

  • Joseph Else
Date:
1782
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Credit: The works of the late Joseph Else, F.R.S. surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and member of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris : containing a treatise on the hydrocele, and other papers on different subjects in surgery. To which is added, an appendix, containing some cases of the hydrocele, with a comparison of the different methods of treating it by caustic and seton by Geo. Vaux, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. THE valuable information contained in Mr. Elfe's Treatife on the Hydrocele, will, it is prefumed, render any apology for a republication of it unneceflary. The principal view of the author, was to recommend, for a radical cure of this difeafe, the operation by cauftic, as a remedy in point of cafe, expedition, fafety, and efficacy, far fupe- rior to every other that has been propofed, and particularly to the operation by a feton : His opinion in this relpe£l, as muft appear to every impartial reader, the author has fupported upon mofl reafonable grounds. In confirmation of the practice laid clown by Mr. Elfe, I have embraced this opportu- nity of fubjoining in an appendix, fome cafes of this difeafe, which have come within my own
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