An account of the method of obtaining a perfect or radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry [sic] rupture, by means of a seton / [Percivall Pott].

  • Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788
Date:
1772
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Credit: An account of the method of obtaining a perfect or radical cure of the hydrocele, or watry [sic] rupture, by means of a seton / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ + ] In the firft place, I think that I have confiderably and materially improved the operation and procefs j and have render- ' ed it lefs painful, and more certain. In the fecond, I find, that what I faid of it in the general treatife, has not been « fo clearly and perfectly underfiood as I could have wilhed ; and in confequence either of brevity and obfeurity on my part, or mifintelligencc on the part of fome of my readers, my true meaning has not been received, and I have been ♦ fubjected lo the frequent interruption of troublefome correlpondences on the fub~ jedi:. 4 And, in the third place, I might add, that fome few gentlemen of confequence, who have by this means been cured, have requefied this publication. ’ A 9