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 / By James Earle.

  • Earle, James, Sir, 1755-1817.
Date:
1791
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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 / By James Earle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The excision may poffibly be neceflary in fome old cafes, where the coats, from long ! ■ and repeated diftention, are become- thick and rigid : fuch, however, very rarely hap¬ pen ; nor can it be neceflary in thefe until i the milder methods have been tried and have i failed. With regard to the Small Caustic and y Seton, they have each fo many advocates, that I am far from determining which de- ferves the preference : but for the reafons given, and which I repeat, the cauftic being defigned to deftroy, and caufe to {lough away a portion of the fcrotum, and the whole of the tunica vaginalis, which produces a painful and offenfive ulcer \ on the con¬ trary, the object of the feton being to pre- ferve, as much as poflible, the natural and perfect flate of all the parts, I am inclined to give my vote in favour of the latter. They are both certainly great improve- M ments,