An inaugural dissertation on hydrocele : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 12th day of May, 1797 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Samuel Jones, A.M. member of the Medical and Chemical Societies of Philadelphia.

  • Jones, Samuel, approximately 1772-1797.
Date:
1797
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on hydrocele : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 12th day of May, 1797 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Samuel Jones, A.M. member of the Medical and Chemical Societies of Philadelphia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wound is afterwards to be lightly dreffed; and if much inflammation mould fucceed, bleeding, purging and a low diet will be proper, together with a poul- tice applied to the part. Incifted Hydrocele may be divided into three kinds, according to the different part where the cift is found; in one it is in the Tunica Communis, in another, in the Dartos, and in the other the Tunica Vaginalis forms it. The two former, however, we fhall confider as one fpecies. The preternatural cift in Hydrocele, as was before obferved, may exift either in the Tunica Communis or in the Dartos. This fpecies may eafily be diftin- guifhed from a collection of water in the cells of thefe membranes, by being more circumfcribed, and by not retaining an impreffion of the fingers. But it is more likely to be confounded with Hernia, or Hydro- cele of the Tunica Vaginalis. From the former we can diftinguifh it by the diforder having come on gradually ; by feeling the upper part of the procefs free, and of its natural fize ; by the tumor not being increafed by coughing, fneezing, &c. and by its