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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    come on from a viciated habit, but from the violence and length of the preceding in- flammation, which of itfelf, without any the finalleft predifpofition in the confti- tution to debility, caufes proftration of ftrength, fmall frequent pulfe, &c. and in fadt, thefe fymptoms arife merely from the change which has taken place on the part. But there is another and very different fpecies of gangrene, too frequently met with in practice, which is really and truly a difeafe of the habit, proceeding from the abufe of fpirituous liquors, and other fti- mulants, &c. In fuch a cafe, gangrene does not arife fo much from the local irritation, .confiaered abftradtedly (though, no doubt, the greater the irritation on the part, the more will it add to the violence of the other fymptoms) as from a certain acquired general indifpofition, in which the nervous power feems not only weakened, but al- tered from its natural flate, and incapable of bearing a very flight degree of irritation, c without