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.

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    brought it into ufe : but it has been long prabtifed in St. Thomas's Hofpital; and all the merit I can claim, if there be any, is that I have confidered, and endeavoured to ex¬ plain the rcafons, which render this procefs preferable to any other; and, from the ex¬ perience of feveral years, can add my own teftimony to its eafe, fafety, and efficacy. Although it has been prabtifed in the pre¬ fence of fb many witneffes, it appears how¬ ever to De Known to very few ^ ; and feveral We fhould iikewife have been informed of the dif¬ ferent fuccefs from the ufe of cauftics and the. knife, both °f vvhich are recommended for the radical cure ; but there are/ew or 110 accounts of this nature.” Sharp’s Critical inquiry, 3d edit. p. pi. ! reafens