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The chirurgical works of Percival Pott ... to which are added a short account of the life of the author, a method of curing the hydrocele by injection and occasional notes and observations by Sir James Earle / [Percivall Pott].

  • Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788.
Date:
1808
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The chirurgical works of Percival Pott ... to which are added a short account of the life of the author, a method of curing the hydrocele by injection and occasional notes and observations by Sir James Earle / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PREFACE, T'we disease which makes the subject of the following tract, is one in which mankind are, on many accounts, much interested. No age, sex, rank, or condition of life, is exempt from it; the rich, the poor, the lazy, and the laborious, are equally liable to it; it produces certain inconvenience to all who are afflicted by it; it sometimes puts the life of the patient in such hazard, as to require one of the most delicate operations in surgery; and it has in all times, from the most ancient down to the present, rendered those who labour under Tt subject to the most iniquitous frauds and impositions. The generality of mankind look upon a rupture as an imperfection in their form, as a disease which impairs their strength, and lessens their geuerative faculty: which apprehensions, though absolutely groundless, are so firmly rooted, in the majority of those who are afflicted with the disorder, as to make them not a little miserable. “They who lie in wait to ayail themselves of the weaknesses of the infirm and B2