An appendix to A treatise on the hydrocele : containing additional proofs of the efficacy of injection for the cure of that disease / by James Earle.

  • Earle, James, 1755-1817.
Date:
1793
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Credit: An appendix to A treatise on the hydrocele : containing additional proofs of the efficacy of injection for the cure of that disease / by James Earle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    introduced. After the proper time it was difcharged, when being relieved from his fears, he became eafy. The next day he faid he had felt pain for about an hour in the af- ternoon, but fince had continued eafy. The part appeared gently tumefied; it grew larger for four or five days; by the feventh it was fo much leflfened, that the man had liberty to walk about as ufual, and was difcharged in a fortnight. Case XLI. March 13, 1792, Another unfortunate French gentleman, forced to abandon his native country, fhewed me a Hydrocele of uncom- mon fize ; he faid it had been before let out, but had been now three years collecting; it was larger confiderably than his head, yet he contrived to keep it out of fight by a bandage that drew it backward. It was much too large to admit of any thing but the fimple eva- cuation, which accordingly I did with a large trochar,