Treatment of Hydrocele by Incision performed Antiseptically

Injection Treatment of Hydrocele

Soj^Q /jn?. The solution may have been too weak or Uld may have remained in the sac to dilute it. Iii two of these cases the fluid drawn out at the next tapping was clear and not bloody as in the others showing that no reaction had taken place. One was injected again, but with no better result. One of the first two came for retapping three weeks later, and I found on emptying the sac that the s...

The Treatment of Hydrocele

To the Editor of " The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?In your October number there appeared a letter by Dr. J. G. Gillmore complaining of suppuration following the majority of hydrocele operations which he attributes to the too free use of ligatures. In this connection I thought that the statistics of the Fyzabad hospital, where a large number of such cases is dealt with, might be of interest. D...

The Operative Treatment of Hydrocele

The Radical Treatment of Hydrocele

necessitate the re-opening of the wound to relieve tension by turning out blood clots. In one of my cases, the patient was a Chaube Brahman, at 32 vears of exceptionally good health, a professional athlete; with' no history of syphilis or any other constitutional taint. The hydrocele was one-sided, fairly large, of five years standing, and it had been tapped from time to time. The operation was...

The Radical Treatment of Hydrocele

Sir,?With reference to an article by Dr. Fink on radical cure of hydrocele by incision and eversion of the sac in the May number of the Indian Medical Gazette, that officer is a little mistaken in his belief that this method of dealing with hydroceles has not been used in Burma before 1905. Both Major Duer and myself operated on a large number of hydrocele in the above manner when at the Rangoo...