The works of Joseph Else : containing a treatise on the hydrocele, and other papers on different subjects in surgery. To which is added, an appendix, containing some cases of the hydrocele, with a comparison of the different methods of treating it by caustic and seton / by Geo. Vaux.

  • Joseph Else
Date:
1782
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Credit: The works of Joseph Else : containing a treatise on the hydrocele, and other papers on different subjects in surgery. To which is added, an appendix, containing some cases of the hydrocele, with a comparison of the different methods of treating it by caustic and seton / by Geo. Vaux. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 3 ] ■ Mr. Pott lays, that the appearances which follow the operation by feton, re- femble thofe can fed by a Hernia Humora- lis *, and that the cure is performed by ad- hefion in confequence of inflammation. Now, though inflammation may frequently procure adhefion, yet that is not always the cafe, at leaft in the Tefticle ; for I have feen fome inftances, where an Hy¬ drocele has immediately followed the Hernia Humoralis, when the patients have ignorantly fuppofed the firft to be the caufe of the fecond difeafe t. Nay, I have now by me a Tefticle, which was extirpa¬ ted upon a hippo fition of its being fcir- rhous; but being examined after the ope¬ ration, the difeafe appeared to be an ab~ fcefs formed in the centre of it. And though the body of the Teftis is enlarged to four times its natural fize, and the Tunica Vaginalis, probably by inflamma- * Pott in his Pamphlet on the Hydrocele, 1771, p. 13 ?*r\d 35. 'Jp Vide note at page zd. tian.