Volume 2

A treatise on the hydrocele: containing an examination of all the usual methods of obtaining relief in that disease. The radical cure by injection is particularly described, and illustrated with cases / [Sir James Earle].

  • Earle, James, Sir, 1755-1817
Date:
1805
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Credit: A treatise on the hydrocele: containing an examination of all the usual methods of obtaining relief in that disease. The radical cure by injection is particularly described, and illustrated with cases / [Sir James Earle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Southampton Street, it was agreed that the extirpation of the teftis was the only means left to reftore the patient to health, or indeed to fave his life. When the parts had re- gained a quiet ftate, the Operation was per- formed. In the body of the teftis a quantity of matter appeared to have been collected, and on the furface of the tunica vaginalis, which was of an immenfe thicknefs, feveral offifications were formed, The gentleman got perfectly well; and I fhould not have given this long hiftory, but to thew the effects which I conceive to have been pro- duced by fuffering the fluid to remain too Jong in the fac, for as far as we could judge from previous circumftances, and actual ap- pearances, there was no reafon to think that there was original difeafe in the teftis, but that this was brought on by preffure, and had the tumor in its early ftage been treated properly as an Hydrocele, it was highly probable