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, 1755-1817.
Date:
1791
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    in fize, and gradually leflened; but at no time-was at all painful, unlefs it was handled. Though, from the little attention paid to it at firft, the tumefaction in this cafe had been rather obftinate, it was, in about three weeks, fo nearly fubfided, that he went out of town, with every appearance of the ac- complifhment of a perfect cure. I have feen him many times fince, and there is no appearance of his ever having had a Hy- drocele. Case X. Mr. Pitts evacuated a large Hydrocele of a middle aged man ; the tefticle was found larger and harder than ufual; he permitted me to throw in an injection, which, on ac- count of the fize and thicknefs of the parts, I had made rather ftronger than ufual; there was not quite enough to fill it, but I prefi- ed it fo as to make it find its way over the