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.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![I »8 ] urine into the cellular membrane all round \ yet, foon after it was invented, this operati- on came, with great juftice, to be generally difcredited; and I hope, for the good of mankind, that no fuch operations will be again revived, Lithotomists, at prefent, feem generally agreed in opinion, that the more eligible me- thod, of cutting for the ftone, confifts in giving a proper degree of extenfion to our ex- ternal incifion; and dividing the membra- nous part of the urethra, the proftate gland, laterally, and the neck of the bladder. However? it is very evident that Chefel- den did not entirely divide the proftate, nor does it appear it was his intention ; nor would it be eafy to do, by cutting, from within, outwards, as Sharp, Bromfield, and Pouteau dire£t* j for their methods of operating do not materially differ. In the method, that was generally taught in France, in 1768 and 1769, and pra&ifed in the Hotel Dieu, one third of the proftate gland was never divided ; and * fcertrandi, in his Obfervations, gives Mr. Chefelden's me- thod the preference.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174994_0142.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
