Volume 1

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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    tains the water is then to be opened, and part of the fides of the fac to be taken away ; after which a direétor is to be introduced, and conveyed to the bottom of the {crotum, and a divifion is to be made to the bottom, that the difcharge of blood and matter may find a free exit: the cavity is to be filled with lint, and the neighbouring parts and the belly are to be fomented; when the wound is cleanfed, and partly incarned, the lint is to be leffened, and fimple dreffings continued till the whole wound is healed. Albucafis defcribes the incifion with the fame exactnefs, and almoft in the fame. terms; but he adds two very material cir- cumftances ; the firft is, that, after this “method of treatment, the Hydrocele is liable to return, the fac not being deftroyed ; and the other is, that the teftis fometimes efcapes out of the lips of the wound. | Great care, he obferves, {hould be taken to return it, and keep it in its place. This accident depends on