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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    [ <7 ] ct pulfe was rather low ; I therefore or- 64 dered him a little of the decoftion of the Bark thrice a day. « 19th. 44 He has hitherto been perfe&ly 44 eafy ; what little inflammation there was, 44 now aim oft totally gone. There was a 44 difcharge from both the pun&ures ; and 44 this day I drew out fome of the threads 44 of the feton* 23d. “ He continues eafy; and I have 44 drawn away, from time to time, fuch 44 threads as were loofe. 30th. 44 I have not been able to draw 44 out one thread all the laft week. They 44 adhered fo ftrongly, that the attempt 44 gave great pain. September 3d. 44 I opened a fmall ab- 44 fcefs formed between the two orifices of 44 the feton. This relieved the patient 44 from fome pain of which he had before 44 complained. There now remained only 44 one thread, which I could not get out. C 13 th.