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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1761
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when we judge it to be large ; and, as to the Accident of breaking the Stone in the Ex¬ traction, though it be poffible, yet we are fo feldom fubjeCt to it in this Method, compared with all the others, that the little danger there is of breaking a Stone in the Extra&ion, is efteemed one of the moft remarkable Be¬ nefits of the high Operation. Another Objection to the high way of Cutting, are, the Excoriations which enfue from the Effufion of the Urine all over the Skin near the Wound; but this Inconveni¬ ence may, in my Opinion, be very much relieved by Embrocations, or Unguents, or Plaifters, any of which will be a good De¬ fence againff the Acrimony of the Urine, in cafe they are applied before the Excoriations arife. O n e of the greateft Evils which follow this Operation, are the AbfceJJes and Gangrenes of the Membrana Cellularis; and thefe are afcribed to the Insinuation of the Urine into the Cells of that Membrane, in Confequence of the fupine Fofture of the Patient, which prevents a free lithe of the Urine from the Bladder: But though I am inclined to believe, that they chiefly arife from the Contulion of the Wound in extracting the Stone; yet, as far