Cases of the hydrocele, with observations on a peculiar method of treating that disease : to which is subjoined a singular case of hernia vesicae urinariae complicated with the hydrocele, and two cases of hernia incarcerata.

  • Thomas Keate
Date:
1788
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Credit: Cases of the hydrocele, with observations on a peculiar method of treating that disease : to which is subjoined a singular case of hernia vesicae urinariae complicated with the hydrocele, and two cases of hernia incarcerata. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 5° ] ** folum fub omni calore, fed etiam retento “ fpiritu, crefcit. Ubi vero omentum eft, “ tumor mollior,” 6cc. Speaking of the Bubonocele *, he ob- ferves, “ Deinde fi defeendit omentum, “ nunquam in feroto tumor tollitur, non “ magnopere increfcit; tadu vero ine- “ qualis eft, et mollis et lubricus. At ** fi Intcjlinum quoque defeendit, tumor “ frigor e omni contrabitur, calore diffun- “ ditur.” In confequence of what is here faid by Cellus in the treatment of the inteftinal Hernia, that the tumor is diminifhed by the application of cold, and increafed by heat, fome advancement in pradice might have been expeded j but from the age of Cellus, above fixteen centuries ago, no ad- vantage feems to have been taken of what was thus tranliently fuggefted, till within ■* L. vii. g. 18. a very