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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    neither the air or dreffings are produ&ive of the painful effe&s they otherwife would be *. Befides, there are fome operations in furgery, which it is fafer for the patient to have done by degrees j and this, I am confident, from repeated experi¬ ence, is one of them. The radical cure of tfie hydrocele by fe~ ton is an old operation, lately introduced into pra&ice by a gentleman of great eftima- tion in his profefilon •f*. He has produced many inftances of it’s good effe&s ; But in all the cafes that I can recoiled!, and in thofe he himfelf relates, the fubfequen.t fymptoms run much higher, and. the pa¬ tient’s life muft be faid, comparatively {peak¬ ing, to be in more danger, than wkere the caufiick has been ufed. Befides, from col¬ lections of matter formed and retained in the fack, we are generally under a neceftity of having recourfe to incifion; or, in other words, putting in pra&ice the firft method, by laying open the fack. • Add to this that the operation is as painful, if not more than that by incifi- on ; * Vide Note V. f Vide Mr. Pott’s Treatife on the Hydrocele. , t ' »■ W ( .