The works of the late Joseph Else, F.R.S. surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and member of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris : containing a treatise on the hydrocele, and other papers on different subjects in surgery. To which is added, an appendix, containing some cases of the hydrocele, with a comparison of the different methods of treating it by caustic and seton by Geo. Vaux, surgeon.

  • Else, Joseph, -1780.
Date:
1782
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Credit: The works of the late Joseph Else, F.R.S. surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and member of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris : containing a treatise on the hydrocele, and other papers on different subjects in surgery. To which is added, an appendix, containing some cases of the hydrocele, with a comparison of the different methods of treating it by caustic and seton by Geo. Vaux, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C Hi 1 A gentleman applied to me to draw off the water from a Hydrocele, which from its fize and weight had become trbti- blefome. I recommended him to have the radical cure performed, but he urged his employment as an excufe; I therefore drew off the water, and he went away. He fent to my houfe about an hour afterwards in a great hurry, to inform me that his fwelling was returned as large as ever, and that it was encreafing in fize: the Tunica Vagina- lis was evidently diftended with blood ; there was no extravafation in the cellular membrane. I explained to him the caufe of this fud- denfwelling; and toldhim the cure would require confinement and reft, at the fame time fubmitting it to his confideration, whether he had not better at once have the cauftic applied, as that would in all probability take up no more time, and would prevent the return of the complaint. He confented to the operation. The next