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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    » - * •[ 2§ ] and enlarged by the difeafe. Upon preliiire, the tumor feels left, the integuments alfume a dow- like or cedematous appearance, and for fome little time afterwards there remains a depreffion or cavity on the part that was prefled upon. In general, this affeftion of the Scrotum is fir from being a local malady ; the body, the limbs, and the face, partake of the difeafe : at the fame time the whole conflitution appears to be much impaired thereby ; fo that the great and perma¬ nent relief, which is to be afforded the patient, who labours under this afflifllon, mud be ex¬ pected from a proper regimen in diet, from gentle exercife, and from proper internal medicines, rather than from manual operation and topical applications. But fince, from experience, we know, that in this difeafe,the integuments are often very much put upon the ftretch, and that they are fome- times attended with great pain and coniiderable inconvenience in making water, occafioned by the Prepuce of the Penis obftruCting the extre¬ mity of the Urethra, from the diftenfion, from the fpiral form, and from the elongation of its integuments; that, under fuch circumftances, fcarifications or punCtures, made fufficiently deep to penetrate the fibres of the Dartos mufcle of the