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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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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    ( tao ) real fwelling in both his tefles; which, by means of mercurial fridtions in the internal parts of his thighs, are both decreafing, but there is not the fmalleft fign of his ever hav- ing had water in either. Case XV. In the autumn of the fame year a gentle- man came from Barbadoes on purpofe to be cured of a large Hydrocele. With his con- fent, I intended to ufe the method by in- jedlion; but, at the infant when I had pall- ed in the trochar, with a violent involuntary motion of his body he forced it out with the cannula, by which accident a fmall quan- tity of water only followed through the ex- ternal orifice, but a conliderable portion efcaped from the tunica vaginalis, and infnu- ated itfelf into the cellular membrane of the fcrotum, making a large lwelling, which put a total