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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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    Inje&ion, or a gradual Influx of Urine from the Kidneys : For want therefore of a proper Guidance, it may fometimes happen, that the trocar will pafs between the Bladder and Return ; at other times, as the Trocar is very long, even through the Bladder into the Pelvis. M. FOUB E RT is fully apprifed of the Poffibility of this Accident, and even admits he himfelf has met with it: He fays, that he laid afide the Method of injecting the Bladder, becaufe it is fometimes not fo fufceptible of fo fuddeti a Dilatation ; and has ever fince let the Bladder fill with Urine before he performed the Operation. In order to render the Blad¬ der capable of holding a lufficient Quantity, where he finds it in a contra&ed State, he orders his Patient to drink very plentifully of Ptifan, or other innocent Liquors fome Days before ; and he declares, that from this Ma¬ nagement the Patient will acquire the Habit of retaining a Glafs or two of Urine in his Bladder, which is Direction enough for the Trocar: And he afierts, that he cannot be deceived in this Circumftance, becaufe, with his Fore-finger in the Return, he can diftin- guifli the Fluctuation of the Urine, if there be any in the Bladder. But notwithstanding