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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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    carries a golden Wire under the Cord clofe to the Rings, and with a Pair of Pincers twifts the two Ends of the Wire fo as to prevent any Communication of the Channel below the Wire, with the Channel above the Wire : But it required great Skill to execute this Procefs of the Operation with due ExaCtnefs; for if the Stricture was made too tight, the Circulation of the Blood in the Spermatic Veffels was obftruCted, and confequently the procreative Faculty deftroyed ; if it was not made tight enough, the Purpofe of the Operation was not anfwered. Upon thefe Accounts it came at length into difufe, though it was at firft ap¬ proved of by feme regular Practitioners. 5 The Royal Suture was performed by lay¬ ing bare the Procejfus Peritonai a confiderable Length from the Rings downwards, and then with a ftraight Needle and waxed Thread, fewing it up by the Glover’s Stitch, in fuch a manner as to leave the Spermatic Veffels free, at the fame time that the Channel of the Procefs was fhut up; by which means the Return of the Omentum or Inteftine was pre¬ vented : The Conceit of faving many of the King’s Subjects by this means, without im¬ pairing the propagating Powers, gave the Name 5 Dionis, 334,-Aquapendente, 274, Padua Edit. 1666.. of
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