An essay on the rupture called hydrocele : explaining the anatomy of the parts affected; with objections to the incision, ... In which is communicated an improved method of radically curing that disorder ... / by Benjamin Humpage ...

Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
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Credit: An essay on the rupture called hydrocele : explaining the anatomy of the parts affected; with objections to the incision, ... In which is communicated an improved method of radically curing that disorder ... / by Benjamin Humpage ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    patients, and more congruous to that humanity^ which fliould ever influence the whole art of forgery. Thefe rhethods, then, are refpedlfully fub- mjtted to the impartial confideration of furgeons who are difpofed to liflen to improvements, and who will candidly compare without any pre- dileftion to favorite dodtrines, the methods here recommended, with thofe older plans of treatment in more general efteem. If this comparative view Ihould induce other furgeons to attempt, what I have found in ^general ufeful, and without referve communicated ; the purpofes for which this little Eflay is written^ will be anfwered, and mankind labouring with this difagreeable diforderj ultimately receive the advantages intended for their benefit. It may be neceflTary to addj that the fame preparation is excellent for the opening vene- real buboes, or ocher abcefles in general j ef- pccially, if the circular ring caujlk be adopt- ed, by means of the defenfative plaifler already deferibed. Excrefcences of every fort can be removed, by. this means, as the piles, he* nor is this preparation without its ufes in the jijhila in ano, the treatment of which may perhaps be the fubjed: of a future eflay. FINIS.