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Identifier: operativesurgery02brya (find matches)
Title: Operative surgery
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bryant, Joseph D. (Joseph Decatur), 1845-1914
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Surgery, Operative
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Fig. 1087.—The elevated dorsal position. urethra by the side of the first. If the fluid introduced into the kidney becolored its escape from the bladder will then be convincing of the complete-ness of the circuit. If the condition of the kidney is to be determined bythe characteristics of the urine, a metal catheter should be employed with arubber-tube attachment to the outer end by means of which the urine canbe collected. If at this time the bladder be thoroughly cleansed and com-pletely emptied, the urine withdrawn from it thereafter will iiulicate thecondition of the opposite kidney. The catheterization of both kidneys willenable one to determine the condition of either by the characteristics of therespective urines. If the ureter or kidney is to be sounded for stone a metal OIIIKATIOXS OX NISCKKA COXNKCTKI* Willi IMlKIToXJ-UM. yy5 instrimient iiiiiy be employed (Fig. 1<)85, a), or one tipixul with wiix, or witli anextremity readily roughened by friction. Cases in wliich—be

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