A treatise on the hydrocele : containing an examination of all the usual methods of obtaining relief in that disease : the radical cure by injection is particularly described, and illustrated with cases / by James Earle.

  • Earle, James, Sir, 1755-1817.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A treatise on the hydrocele : containing an examination of all the usual methods of obtaining relief in that disease : the radical cure by injection is particularly described, and illustrated with cases / by James Earle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I conceive, cannot depend on any improve- ment of Mr. Bell's, for though it has fome- times failed, as I have known, in general it is allowed to be an operation of certainty $ indeed it would be wonderful, if, after divid- ing the bag, and laying bare the tefticle, fuf- ficient inflammation were not excited to per- form a cure y I only argue that it is infinitely more than is neceffary to produce the proper effeft. With regard to the eafe which is pro- mifed in the operation, I prefume if muft refped: the operator, not the patient $ for however lightly and dexteroufly the knife be ufed, the nerves muft ftill be fenfible of its edge 3 the exquifitely tender coats of the tef- ticle alfo muft ftill be expofed to the irrita- tion of handling, the contact of air, and pref- fure of dreffings. I ftiall pafs over the firft part of Mr. Bell's treatife, containing an anatomical account of the peritonaeum and defcent of the teftis, which, if neceffary to the knowlege of a dif- eafe that cannot happen till the teftis is completely