Observations on the different methods made use of for the radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry rupture, and on other diseases of the testicle : to which is added a comparative view of the different methods of cutting for the stone, with some remarks on the medicines generally exhibited as solvents of the stone / by William Dease.
- William Dease
- Date:
- MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the different methods made use of for the radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry rupture, and on other diseases of the testicle : to which is added a comparative view of the different methods of cutting for the stone, with some remarks on the medicines generally exhibited as solvents of the stone / by William Dease. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 73 ] tween them and the fcirrhus; but a difcharger of matter continued from a deep part of the fcirrhus. Although the hydrocele feemed perfe&ly cured, and the tumour decreafed confiderably, yet a large fcirrhus remained; and a difcharge of matter from it, through a fmall aperture, left unclofed after the cauf- tick. The tumour would fometimes be en- larged prodigioufly: Therefore, having be- fore tried a mercurial alterative courfe, with a deco&ion of farfaparilla, for near two months, I refolved to extirpate the tefticle. Having laid him on a proper table, I made an incilion, beginning above the abdominal ring ; and continued it, fo as to leave an oval piece of the integuments on the teftis. I then laid the fpermatick chord bare, and ob- ferved its tunica vaginalis greatly increafed in thicknefs. Having divided it, I took up the artery -y and fo finifhed the operation, by difle&ing out the tefticle. On examining the tumour, I found it to confiit of a white, fcirrhous, or hard fteato- matous, fort of fubftance * > and was in fize, when ftripped of the teguments, as large as a man's lift. On dividing it in the middle, I founds * Vide Plate I.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174994_0102.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
