Radical cure of the hydrocele, by means of an injection.

  • Earle, James, 1755-1817.
Date:
[1790]
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Credit: Radical cure of the hydrocele, by means of an injection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ot a young man, and threw in an injection; he complained of pain during the firft three minutes, when he grew eafy; in five minutes the injection was difcharged. This pro- ceeded, in every refpedt, like th.ofe I have related, with a very moderate inflamma- tion, which decreafed gradually. He has fince applied to me, with a venereal fwelling in both his tefles; which, by means of mercurial fiidtions in the internal parts of his thighs, are both decreafing, but there is not the fmalleft fign of his ever having had water in either. CASE XV. In the autumn of the fame year, a gentle- man came from Barbadoes on purpofe to be cured of a large hydrocele. With his con- lent, I intended to ufe the method by injec- , tion; but, at the inftant when 1 had palfed in the trocar, with a violent involuntary motion of his body, he forced it out with the cannula, by which accident a fmall quantity of water only followed through the external orifice, but a conliderable portion elcaped C 2 from 1