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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    [ ] a feme5 though it has generally been cle~ 61 cried and dreaded He adds, “ that 44 the membranous ftrufture of the parts 44 on which the wound is inflicted, their *c continuation from the Peritonaeum, 44 and the great irritability of forne of 44 thofe, which are neceffarily laid bare, u and put under the neceffity of receiving 64 dreffings, muft occafion pain and a fvmp- *4 tomatic fever t; and that the operation 44 is, or ought to be, confined to the 64 young and healthy f. <c The general induration of all the 44 parts about the thick tumid lips of the 44 incifion, and the general inflammatory 44 enlargement of the Scrotum, have, for 44 the firil four or five days, a difagreeable 9 Treatife on the Hydrocele, p. 160. lb. p, 165, t U. ibid. Notwithftanding thefe conditions were complied with, yet in one of Mr. Samuel Sharpe’s pa¬ tients, aged forty-four, the Tefticle fuppurated, and he had like to have loft his life. Another, a boy of eight years, narrowly kefcap.ed. u appearance