A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery,: With a Description and Representation of the Instruments Used in Performing Them: To Which Is Prefixed an Introduction on the Nature and Treatment of Wounds, Abscesses, and Ulcers, (9th edition)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1740 Excerpt: ...in all Ages there have been many People deceived for a length of time, by a suppos'd Dissolvent, tho' we have not hitherto known any safe one, 'till lately it has been discovered that Lime and Soap are often' efficacious in that Case. C H A P. XVII. Of SEARCHING. TH E Patient being laid on a horizontal Table, with his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1740 Excerpt: ...in all Ages there have been many People deceived for a length of time, by a suppos'd Dissolvent, tho' we have not hitherto known any safe one, 'till lately it has been discovered that Lime and Soap are often' efficacious in that Case. C H A P. XVII. Of SEARCHING. TH E Patient being laid on a horizontal Table, with his Thighs elevated and'a little extended, pass the Sound with the concave part towards you, 'till it meets with some resistance in Perinceo, a little above the Anus, then turning it without much force, pusti it gently on into the Bladder, and if it meets with an obstruction at the Neck, raise its extremity upwards by inclining the Handle of it towards you, or if it don't then slip in, K 4 with withdraw it a quarter of an Inch, and introducing your Fore-finger into the ReSlum, lift it up, and it will seldom fail to enter: There is some Art in turning the Sound in the proper place of the Urethra, which Surgeons not vers'd in this Operation cannot so well execute, therefore they may pass the Instrument with the Concave side always towards the Abdomen of the Patient, observing the same Rule at the entrance into the Bladder, as in the other Method. The cause of this obstacle is frequently a small projection of the Orifice of the Bladder in the Urethra, like that of the Os Tinc in the Vagina, which occasions the end of the Sound to flip a little beyond it. 'Tis not to be suppos'd that by searching one can positively judge of the size and form of a Stone, and indeed the frequency of the Fits, and violence of the Symptoms are a better Rule to go by, though whoever shall think himself capable of distinguishing absolutely the difference of Stones even by these Circumstances, will sometimes be mistaken, since the frequency and violence of the Pain dep...
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VG. 0878210261. Full title: A treatise on the operations of surgery, with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefixed an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abcesses, and ulcers. This is a reprint of the 1769 edition printed for Robinson and Roberts, London. Green cloth boards, 247 pages, very good binding, very clean outside, light outer edge marks;
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