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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    [ 3§ ] in fi your of it. His fir ft reafon is, 4■ That 44 all cauftics a£t (lowly, and that, during 44 their aftion, the liquid, which we flip- 44 pole already corrupted, will become 44 more foH But I believe no advocate will be found to plead for a corrupted ftate of the liquid in an Hydrocele, at this time. Secondly,44 He thinks the cauftic cannot 44 be confined to a certain fpace, but that 4 it will fpread further than the burgeon 44 intended.5' It muft be owned a difficult matter to confine a cauftic upon the Scro- * turn, but it will be more eafy to confine a fmall than a large one ; yet, if after pro- per precautions, it fhould fpread fomewhat further than the furgeon intended, no ex¬ traordinary mifchief will enfue, if it does, not come at the Tefticle. Thirdly,44 That notwithftanding the'ip- plication of the cauftic, the Efchap muft *4 afterwards be opened, and therefore it 44 would be much better to ufe the inftru- inent at firft.” If .there was any real neceillty