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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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    avoided, though indeed, it is not a Species of Suture that will conftringe the Veflels, nor do I imagine it would be hurtful, if by chance any of them fhould be pundured. I have thus far confidered the Bubonocele, as being moveable at pleafure into the Abdomen; but there are an infinity of Inftances, where it remains perpetually in the Scrotum ; this generally arifes either from the Adhefion of one Inteftine to another, and of the Inteftine to the Omentum, or elfe from the Adhefion of the Vifcera to the Sacy and of the Sac to the Tunica Vaginalis. In both thefe Cafes it is ufual to fufpend the Scrotum with a Bag- Trufs, and make no farther Attempts ; but it having 8 frequently 'happened to People afflided with monftrous Bubonoceles, that the Hernia has intirely difappeared, after a long Illnefs which has confined them to their Beds, and greatly emaciated them ; Some of the Moderns have imitated this Operation of Na¬ ture, and by frequent Bleedings and repeated Purges have fo far reduced the Size of the Hernia, that it has been returned into the * Abdomen, and there eafily fupported by a pro¬ per Trufs. It mud be obferved, however, that this Method cannot prove fuccelsful, but 8 Le Dran, 114, French Edit. Arnaud, 29-2. when
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