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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    [48] lowed the method by large cauftic, being Without doubt owing to 44 the injury which 64 (to ufe Mr. Pott's words) the irritable 44 and acutely fenfible Tefticle receives * while the mildnefs and fafetv of the other proceeds from avoiding all poffible irrita¬ tion and expofure of it. Mr. Pott has declared his opinion to be determined, and that he is convinced the feton is the moft fuccefsfully efficacious of anv method of cure in this difeafe f. Yet it does not appear to me, from his wri¬ tings, that he ever law put in practice the method by fmall cauftic which I have recommended. His conclulion with re¬ gard to the cauftic, compared with the feton, is, that 44 this la ft accomplifhes the 44 cure by the adhefion of the two coats 44 together, without any deftruftion of 44 parts ; in which confifts the material ca difference between the method of cure 44 by fetoA, and that by cauftic X” But * Note to p. 164, inTreatife on Hydrocele. ^ Pamphlet on the Hydrocele, >771. J Pamphlet, p. 41. < fuppofing