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 J5 ] if more eafily obtained, that fhall have the like tendency to difcuffion. By thefe methods an in¬ flammatory tumor of the Scrotum, and of the coats of the Tefticle, as well as of the Tefticle itfelf, may almoft always be, fooner or later, re¬ moved ; at the fame time remembering the ne- cefiity there generally is of keeping your pa¬ tient in bed ; or in keeping him ftill and quiet upon a couch, with his legs and thighs fup- ported ; and even at prefent, and in future, to fufpend the parts in a bag-trufs; and to continue this fufpeniion for a longer or Ihorter time, as occafion fhall be found to require: for in diffe¬ rent habits of body, as well as in different de¬ grees of this and other difeafes, a greater or lefs fpace of time will be required for effedting our intentions, dependant upon a variety of circum- ftances, which feldom can be forefeen. Inflammations and tumors of thefe parts, arifing from venereal caufes, are attended in many inftances with very acute pain, and a fympto- matic fever; becaufe the inflammation and tu¬ mor originate in the Tunica Albuginea and Tef¬ ticle itfelf: and, in general, fuch attacks are ob- ferved to be very fudden, and quick in their pro- grefs, accompanied by a confiderable enlarge- ment, tenfion, and induration of the Tertis it* felf.