Practical observations on the sclerocele and other morbid enlargements of the testicle : also on the cause and cure of the acute, the spurious, and the chronic hydrocele : the whole illustrated by cases, to which are added four cases of operations for aneurysm, subclavian, femoral, popliteal, and femoral-popliteal, with practical remarks, and plates / by Thoman Ramsden.

  • Ramsden, Thomas
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1811
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Credit: Practical observations on the sclerocele and other morbid enlargements of the testicle : also on the cause and cure of the acute, the spurious, and the chronic hydrocele : the whole illustrated by cases, to which are added four cases of operations for aneurysm, subclavian, femoral, popliteal, and femoral-popliteal, with practical remarks, and plates / by Thoman Ramsden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    all this proceeds slowly; at other times the testicle suddenly becomes painful, inflames and suppurates, and, throwing out a gleet- ing fungus, assumes characters of that dis- ease which, in the female breast, and other parts of the body, we call cancer. Yet many of these features, although unquestionably characteristic of schirrus and carcinoma, may be clearly proved to be the natural consequence of a species of irritation which I shall endeavour to describe in the follow- ing pages. While, therefore, it is not my intention to deny the existence of idiopathic disease in the testicle, I am fully authorized, and have great pleasure in asserting, that such a disease is extremely rare, and that very many cases of morbid induration, hitherto supposed to be idiopathic, may be safely considered, and successfully treated, as aris-