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.

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    fome further improvement has been made in the management of the two procefles. If a very flight degree of inflammation will be fufficient for the production of a firm and lafting adhefion, in the method by Seton, perhaps in all thofe cafes in which there is a predifpofition to inflam- matory diathefis, the end may be fairly attained, by uling a Seton fmaller than that employed by Mr. Pott. In this method, there is a circumftance requiring very par- ticular attention, and is principally obferva- ble when the adhefion takes place late, and in confequence of a previous digeflion and ftate of granulation. Though the water has been fairly evacuated, and the tunica vaginalis collapfed, the extent of the future inflammation will bear an exadl proportion' to the original fize of the tumour : the im- mediate collapfion of the membrane, after the evacuation of the water, would incline one to think, that by carefully moderating the fymptoms, the inflammatory tumour might