Observations on the different methods made use of for the radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry rupture, and on other diseases of the testicle; to which is added a comparative view of the different methods of cutting for the stone. With some remarks on the medicines generally exhibited as solvents of the stone / by William Dease.

  • Dease, William, 1752?-1798.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Observations on the different methods made use of for the radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry rupture, and on other diseases of the testicle; to which is added a comparative view of the different methods of cutting for the stone. With some remarks on the medicines generally exhibited as solvents of the stone / by William Dease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    meat, and plafter over 5 and order the fcro- turn to be wrapped in the flax feed pultice, to be occafionally repeated, and fupported with a bag trufs. It muft be confeffed that, in this method, the operation of the cauftick is flow, and may feem rather tedious : But then the pati¬ ent is amply recompenfed by the little pain he fuffers, and the abfence of all thofe high local and general inflammatory fymptoms, that attend the other methods. In the courfe of the cure, the tefticle will become more or lefs enlarged ; and we fhould be careful to have it fomented, three or four times a day, and the emollient pultice con- ftantly applied, fupported by the bag trufs ; and the patient purged every third or fourth , r' 1 day. After the tunica vaginalis appears, the fpot intended to be perforated, if thin, may be punctured with a lancet; but if we llight- ly rub it with the cauftick, it generally {loughs off: The water drips gradually away, in which a few floughs commonly appear from time to time; Thofe feem to be de¬ tached