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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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    23° A Critical Enquiry, &c. in order .to dilate the Orifice of the Cyft j and the Extraction of the Stone may in this man¬ ner be facilitated. It has been thought when Stones do not prels upon the Neck of the Bladder, but re¬ main immoveable in any other Part of it, that they do not give Pain ; however, fome of the Cafes here recited contradict this Opinion : Indeed they do not prove fo troublefome when they are encyfted, as when they are loofe; nor is the body of the Bladder fo pain¬ ful a Situation for a moveable Stone as the Neck ; for Experience (hews, that if we move a Stone from the Neck, either by a Sound, or by fufpending the Patient with his Head downwards, we fometimes procure immediate Eafe. I fuppofe this may be accounted for, from its touching the Bladder in more Points when it lies in the Neck, than when it is in its Body or Fundus, in confequence of which it mud irritate more ; befides that from every effort to Urine, the Pain muff be greatly aug¬ mented by the forcible Contraction of the Bladder on the Surface of the Stone. m SEC T.