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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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    facility, than if the Handle lay in a right Line with the Blade : But to conceive rightly of this Operation, one fhould fee either the In- flru merits themfelves, or the Figures of them, which he has annexed to the Defcription of his Method. When the Incifion of the Bladder is made, he introduces the Gorget upon the Grooye of the Canula ; after which, the Operation is finifhed as in the other Methods; only that his Gorget is differently contrived from the Gorgets which are mofl in ufe. These are nearly the Particulars of M. Fouberis Method of Cutting ; but though he has pradifecj it feveral Years with great Dexterity, if I may judge by the Operation I myfelf have feen him perform, and, with good Succefs, according to his own Declara¬ tion j neverthelefs he has not yet had the Happinefs to perfuade any of his Countrymen to adopt it \ and 1 prefume for the following Reafons. Because there are many Bladders, which, from the continual Irritation of the Stone, have been fo accuftomed to difeharge the Urine as faft as it flows from the Kidneys, that they become very fmall; and at the fame time are incapable of a fufficient Diftenfion, either by Injedion,