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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![[ « ] tached only from the parts immediately ad- jacent, and are not the entire tunica vagi- nalis flung off. A fuppuration foon takes place from the infide of the fack : All en- largement gradually fubfides; the difcharge daily lefTens > and a cicatrix is foon after formed, which adheres to the teftis, at the fpot where we applied the cauftick; and a radical cure is the confequence*. In this method, there is no fear of the caufticks fpreading to a greater extent, than we defign it fhould; but where the integu- pnents are thick, we may apply the cauftick, as we do in adults. SECT. II. Of the Hydrocele in Meny and the different Me- thods propofed for its radical Cure con- fidered, AN Hydrocele, in men, is a very fe*- rious complaint, and requires, in the Surgeon, the moft attentive confederation of the general ftate of the patient's conftituti- on,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174994_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
