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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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    refift the Irritation to Urine, a Yoke is put on the Penisi to prevent the iflue of the Water from the Bladder. Being then placed in the ufual Pofture for Cutting, an Afliftant with a convenient Bolder, prefles the Abdomen a little below the Navel in fuch a manner, that by pufhing the Bladder forwards, he may make that part of it protuberate which lies between the Neck and the Ureter, The Ope¬ rator at the fame time, introduces the Fore¬ finger of his Left-hand up the Recium, and drawing it down towards the right Buttock, pufhes in a trocar on the left Side of the Perinceum, near the great Tuberofity of the Ifchium, and about an Inch above the Anus: Then the Trocar is to be carried on parallel to the Redlum, exactly between the Eredlor Penis and Accelerator Urinee Mufcles, fo as to enter into the Bladder on one fide of its Neck : As foon as the Bladder is wounded, the Ope¬ rator withdraws his Fore-finger from the Anus. The Trocar is longer than a common w Trocar, and is made .with a kind of Handle, that determines it into an upper and a lower Part. On the upper Part of the Canula, is a Groove continued almoft to its Extremity : By the means of this Groove fome Urine will iflue out, when the Trocar penetrates into the Bladder \\