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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    I ( 9 ) herent, or incarcerated, the tumor may be returned into the cavity of the abdomen by gentle preffure on it, affifted by a favourable or horizontal polition of the body. Or in cafe it cannot be returned, the patient being directed to cough, a protrufion from the ab- domen may generally be difcovered by the impulfe which it receives from the aCtion of the abdominal mufcles; from which the Hydrocele, being unconnected with the con- tents of the abdomen, is wholly exempt. Another circumftance which I have re- marked is, that on preffing the tumor upward, the fuperior termination of it, if it be a Hydrocele, will be fometimes evident to the view, though it may be too far engaged within the ring to be difcoverableby the touch. The hiftory of the cafe often helps to point out the difference between the two difeafes, fhe Hydrocele begins below, the hernia above. Too great attention cannot be given to every ^ mark