An account of the testicles, their common coverings and coats; and the diseases to which they are liable: with the method of treating them / [Joseph Warner].

  • Joseph Warner
Date:
1774
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Credit: An account of the testicles, their common coverings and coats; and the diseases to which they are liable: with the method of treating them / [Joseph Warner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L *3 ] , reft from, exercife and labour, for their relief and cure. , * • * i Of the DISEASES of t[h e s C R o T U M, &c. I* The principal difeafes to which the Scrotum, the Tunics of the Tefticles, the Tefticles them- felves, and the Epididymes, are iubjeded, are, inflammation, fuppuration or abfcefs, dtoplv, mortification, fiftulous ulcers, caliohties, induc¬ tions, and that worfe degree of induration termed fchirrhus, which is fometirnes difpofed to become cancerous. As thefe difeafes are very differently circum- ftanced, different modes of treatment are found proper, as well as neceflarv, for their iehef and cure. If the affedion arifes from a confiderable in¬ flammation of the Scrotum and its contents; aud this inflammation does not take place at the crifis or termination of a dangerous fever, whether the fever has been of a longer or fhorter duration, nor the inflammation appears to be of that dufky or livid completion which indicates, or at leaft threatens, a tendency to gangrene; fuch method of