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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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    be inferred, that the Weight of the Stones is the firft Caufe of this preternatural Figure of the Bladder j befides, if the Stones them- felves did not occafion the Protrufion of the feveral parts of the Bladder, we fhould have heard of Encyfted Bladders where there was no Stone. Sometimes the Stones lying in thefe Cyfts adhere to the internal Membrane of the Bladder, and I have twice feen in a dead Bo¬ dy an Adhefion of Stone where there was no Cyft ; but thefe Adhefions are not very ftrong, and therefore do not much obftrud the Ope¬ ration 5 fo that it is poffible we may extrad Stones that flightly adhere, when we do not fufpedt it. I a M afraid we can derive no other Be¬ nefit from the Hiftories of Encyfted Bladders, than a Solution of the Difficulty of extrading certain Stones: However, this Difficulty very feldom occurs; for though I have met with two fuch Inftances after Death, yet in the Multitudes I have feen cut for the Stone, this unlucky Accident never once prefented itfelf. But fhould there be only one Cyft, and that fo near the Neck of the Bladder as to be reached with the Fore-finger, the Point of a Knife may be fafely conveyed on the Finger Q 3 in