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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rarely. Ulcers of the two Lacuna of their Projlate Glands are more Common : Thefe Ulcers appear juft within the Vagind> that is to fay, exa&ly in the Place where the Lacuna arc fituated. The Treatment of the one and other will be eafily underftood, from the Rules laid down for the Treatment of Men. I h A v e now conlidered all the principal Diforders of the Urethra, relievable by the Bougie, except the Fijiula in Perinao> which 1 (hall examine into the nature of, when I lay down the Rules for the Management of the Bougie. It remains therefore to be enquired into next, what may, moft probably, be the fitted: Compofition of Plaifter for rendering the Bougie efficacious. If the Plaifter be too foft, the Bougie can¬ not be introduced with a fufficient Force, either thro’ a Stricture, or any other kind of Obftacle, to procure the proper Effedt with fpeed : For, if it lie with its Point only againft the Obftacle, its Operation will be very tedi¬ ous, whereas was it ftiff enough to pafs a little way thro’ the Obftrudtion, it would not only diftend, but alfo quickly bring on a con- ftderable Suppuration from the difeafed Part. It is therefore of great Confequence that the Bougie