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.
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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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    Mr. Pott fays, that the appearances which follow the operation by feton, re- ferable thofe caufed by a Hernia Humora- lis *, and that the cure is performed by ad- hefion in confequence of inflammation. N ow, though inflammation may frequently procure adhefion, yet that is not always the cafe, at leaft in the Tefticle ; for I have feen fome inftances, where an Hy- drocele has immediately followed the Hernia Humoralis, when the patients have ignorantly fuppofcd the firft to be the caufe of the fecond difeafe f. Nay, I have now by me a Tefticle, which was extirpa- ted upon a fuppofition of its being fcir- rhous; but being examined after the ope- ration, the difeafe appeared to be an ab- fcefs formed in the centre of it. And though the body of the Teftis is enlarged to four times its natural fize, and the Tunica Vaginalis, probably by inflamma- * Pott in his Pamphlet on the Hydrocele, 1771, p. 12 and 39. ^ Vide note at page zd. tion,