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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![[ 3° ] it with the lapis infernalis, it will flough away: A fuppuration, generally abundant, if the hydrocele was large, takes place, and fome floughs are flung off from time to time. The fomentations, pultice, &c. fhould be continued; the patient's bowels be kept free by any gentle laxative ; and he fhould have a deco&ion of the bark to take through the day. All enlargement gradually fubfides, and the fuppuration leffens. The patient need not be conftantly con- fined to bed, during the treatment ; but may be permitted to drefs himfelf, and get up for fome hours through the day, when the fwelling has for the moft part fubfided, and the difcharge is much leffened, which often happens at the end of a fortnight. After this, the difcharge becomes trifling; the hole looks florid -, the fcrotum contra&s to near its original fize; a cicatrix is foon after formed,, which adheres to the tefticle, and remains indented.' The whole procefs may take up from four to fix weeks, and the patient is recompenfed by the radical cure of a troublefome complaint. Having fhewn the method, that I have experienced moft effe&ual, for the radical removal](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174994_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
