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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![t *I2 ] geon * here affures me that, in his time, one man, in particular, cut in this method with fuccefs, although he made no exception as to the patient's age* But Lithotomifls, who cut on the gripe, did not perform the operation as pointed out by Celfus; for, inftead of the lunated inci- fion he recommends, they cut directly on the Hone -, fo that this method approached very near to the lateral operation -J*, as to the divifion of the parts. However, if we confidef the difficulty of bringing down the ftone into the neck of the bladder, the contufion thofe endeavours muft occafion; the uncertainty of getting the ftone in a favourable fituation, in order to cut on it, the laceration that attends the ex- traction, and the impracticability of perform- ing this operation, except in a few cafes, I prefume, it will appear that the apparatus minor may, at this day, be juftly looked on, as one of the exploded operations of furgery. To the apparatus minor fucceeded the apparatus major, an operation that was in ge- neral * Mr. Daunt. f Vide Albucafis's defcription of the operation.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174994_0136.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
