Observations on the method of curing the hydrocele by means of a seton.

  • Howard, John, 1726-1790.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on the method of curing the hydrocele by means of a seton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    applied, and when other circumftances, to be hereafter mentioned, are properly at- tended to, the inflammation continues di- minifhing, till the cure is compleated. When the tenflon begins to fubfide, the period commences, toward the clofe of which, the Seton may with propriety be withdrawn. This period begins about the fourth, fifth, or fixth days, and continues till the tenth, twelfth, or fourteenth. The threads may be all removed at one Angle drefling, or by degrees, at different times, as the cafe may require. The two furfaces being thus brought into a ftate fit for ad- hefion, and lodgment of the fecreted fluid prevented, by a free difcharge from both orifices, a firm and univerfal coalefcence between the two coats takes place: the cure is then accompl.ifhed, and nothing more is required, but to heal the orifices by a fuperficial drefling. The adhefion is effected in two different ways i in the one, there is a confiderable difcharge.