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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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    The moft frightful Circumflance in this Ope ration 3 is the poffibility of a contraded Bladder, which not admitting much Icjedion, and therefore continuing to lie concealed un¬ der the Os Pubis, may deceive the Operator, who, in this Cafe, opens the Peritoneum in- ftead of the Bladder ; in Confequence of which, the Intcftines protrude, and the Pa¬ tient generally dies. This Accident alone would be fufficient to condemn the Operation, were we equally expofed to it in every Per- fon that is cut; but in many Men, we know by Searching, that their Bladder is very large, fo that we run no risk of this Misfortune in thole Cafes; and therefore the Objedion is of no weight, where we are certain that the Bladder extends itfejf a confiderable height above the Os Pubis, and will admit a large Quantity of Injedion. Another Inconvenience imputed to the high Operation, is, the Dif¬ ficulty of feizing the Stone when it is finall; and the Impradicability of extrading all the Stone, when it happens to be broke into a great Number of Pieces: But though we can¬ not always pofitively determine, by Searching or other Circumftances, what is the exad Size of a Stone ; yet there are a multitude of In- flances where we are very feldoin miftaken, O 4 when