An account of the method of obtaining a perfect or radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry [sic] rupture, by means of a seton / [Percival Pott].

  • Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788.
Date:
1771
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Credit: An account of the method of obtaining a perfect or radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry [sic] rupture, by means of a seton / [Percival Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 9 ] ; can take up, muft, on the other hand, inlarge a'nd‘ diflend, the faid cavity, by carrying ail the loofe unconnedled part of the bag farther and farther from the teflicle, in proportion to the quantity ac-f \ cumulated. The former, I do know to / be fometimes, and I verily believe mod: frequently is, the confequence of a fevere hernia humoralis, as well as of other in^ flammations of the tefticle. The latter among other difeafes produces the hy¬ drocele or watry rupture. This being the cafe, that is, the in- tumefcence of the fcrotal bag, being caufed by the gradual accumulation of a fluid, which ought to have been abforbed, it is alnioft: always produced gradually; and therefore has, in moil inflances, made fome progrefs before it is taken notice of; efpecially by carelefs and in¬ attentive peopie. For the fame reafon C it