An essay on the cure of the hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis testis / By Joseph Else.

  • Else, Joseph, -1780.
Date:
1770
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Credit: An essay on the cure of the hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis testis / By Joseph Else. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/78 (page 11)
    “ rather by the palliative cure.” In fubfequent editions he fubftitutes the word trouble for danger*. In one cafe related of a healthy man of forty- four years old, it appears, that on the night of the operation he grew feverifh, had violent pain in his back, and for four days continued in a moft dangerous condition, till the fever tended to a crifis by the fuppuration of both wound and tefticle; which forced him to open the body of the Teftis. He adds, that after the cicatrization of the wound he was reftored to perfeft healthf. He does not indeed fay that the function of the Teftis was continued; for I think that muft pro¬ bably be deftroyed, when matter was formed in the body of it, and that opened for its dif- charge. * Ed. 6. p. 41. f lb. p. 42. C 2 From