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, Sir, 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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    cavity to be filled again, only to fuch a fize as may be thought to be belt calculated to infure fuccefs in any future operation. The palliative cure confifts in drawing off the water by a punCture made through the fcrotum and tunica vaginalis; for this pur- pofe fome have preferred the lancet, others the trochar. I make no fcruple in recom¬ mending the latter, as it completely evacuates the water with eafe and expedition. When the wound is made by a lancet, nothing is left to maintain a communication between the opening in the fcrotum and that of the tunica vaginalis, confequently the water is often either prevented from coming out of the fac at all, or it efcapes into the cellular mem¬ brane, and cannot find the paflage through the fcrotum; to obviate this, the practitioner, as I have often remarked, is obliged to intro¬ duce a probe, which cannot always be readily effected, and makes the operation painful and tedious. 5