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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
Year: 1769 (1760s)
Authors: Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Surgery Surgical Procedures, Operative
Publisher: London : Printed for Robinson and Roberts
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ry great, asoften to break it, notwithstanding all ourCare. However, in both thefe Operations,the Surgeon rauft not grafp the Stone withViolence, and even in extracting, muftwithboth Hands to the Branches of his Forceps,refift their (hutting fo tight, as the Com-preifiGn from the Lips of fuch a narrowWound would otherwife make them iHere I fpeak of the Difficulty of layinghold of a Stone in any Part of the Bladder jbut if it happen to lie in one of the Sinufesbefore-mentioned, the Forceps are fo con-fined that it becomes ftill harder. TheExtraction of very large Stones, is muchmore impracticable with the greater Appa-ratus than by this Method, becaufe of thefmallnefs of the Angle of the Bones in thatPart where the Wound is made ; fo thatindeed is is neceflary in almoft all Extrac-tions to puli the Stone downward towardsthe ReBum, which cannot be done withoutgreat Violence to the membranous Parts,and even the Separation of one from an- .other 3 whence follow AbfcefTes and Sloughs about
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Operations of Surgery. about the Wound, which is a Circumftanceriot known in the Lateral Operation. Ec-chymofes followed by Suppuration and Gan-grene, fometimes fpread themfelves uponthe Scrotum, and in mort, all the Incon-veniences and ill Symptoms which attendupon the Lateral Operation, except theHaemorrhage, are in a more violent Degree,incident to the old Way. An Incontinence of Urine, is not com-mon after the Lateral Operation, and aFiftula feldom or never the Confequence ofit; but the Prevention of a Fiftula feemsto depend very much upon the Skill ofdreffing the Wound afterwards -, and per-haps it would not fo often happen, if theDrerTmg were rightly managed in the oldWay, though certainly this Method ismuch more liable to them, as the Woundis made among Membranes, is more con-tufed, and in many, from an Incontinenceof Urine, is continually kept open. I have(een fome In dances indeed in the LateralOperation, where through Neglect, theBladder has remained fiftulous, but theWound

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