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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    [ 3« ] than in their natural ftate, or than I ever in manhood obferved it to be, when the tumor comes flowly on. In this inftance, the Scro¬ tum and Tunica Vaginalis were perfectly trans¬ parent, and confiderably elevated on their an¬ terior and inferior parts; and they refembled a bladder filled, and diftended with clear water: the Tefticle and Epididymis preferved their na¬ tural fituation; that is, they were fixed behind to the Tunica Vaginalis, and by thefe means were kept at a confiderable diftance from the forepart of the diftended Tunic: the patient was much relieved by the operation, and in a fevy hours afterwards he returned home. Suppofing this fhort hiftory of the cafe to have been fairly reprefented by the furgeon, as I verily believe it was; we may, from this and other examples of the like kind, infer, that iudden inflammations of membranous parts, occafioning much irritation, are fometimes pro¬ ductive of more fpeedy effects of the like kind, in this as well as in other parts of the body, than feems readily to have been conceived of; and that a fimple operation, opportunely per¬ formed under fuch circumftances, and in fimi- lar cafes, may probably prove more fuccefsful than it is generally experienced to be, when the