An account of the method of obtaining a perfect or radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry [sic] rupture, by means of a seton / [Percival Pott].

  • Percivall Pott
Date:
1771
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Credit: An account of the method of obtaining a perfect or radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry [sic] rupture, by means of a seton / [Percival Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [2 ] ing them ; an inquiry, which they ap¬ peared to me, for many reafons, both to •' -v . deferve, and require. The refult I com¬ municated to the public, under the title of, A “ Treatife on the Hydrocele, or “ Watry Rupture, and other difeafes of “ the tefticle, its coats and velfeisin which I endeavoured to be as precife, and a-s explicit as I could. One part of this tra6l contains an exa¬ mination of the various means, which have at dhferent times, either accidentally produced a radical cure, or have been profeffedly propofed, and prailifed for fuch purpofe. \ • I Among other means ufed to obtain this end, I mentioned the Seton j and fpake of it as that, which for many reafons, appeared to me to be prefera¬ ble to all others; as a method which I had A (