Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases.
- Wilmer, Bradford
- Date:
- 1788
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ticnt’s Legs over the Shoulders of a ftrong Man.—This Method, Mr. Sharpe * tells ns, has often fucceeded, when other At- ] tempts for Reduction have been ineffectual- ly made.—If the Surgeon is not lent for, ! till after the Symptoms have made a con- j fiderable Progrels, he fhould handle the I Parts with great Caution and Gentlenefs, I becaufe at that Period it is probable the j Inteftine will be much loaded with Blood, ] and diftended with Air or Faeces ; and in j this Situation much Preffure would anfwer I no other Purpofe than to accelerate the I approaching Gangrene.—In endeavouring j to return the Inteftine, the Preffure (hould ] be direfted obliquely outward.—If the ] Tumor will not give way to-Preffure, or 1 if the Parts are in fuch a State as, in the 1 Opinion gf the Surgeon, to render the At- 1 tempt improper, it will then be advife-1 able to try the EffeCts of cold Applica-1 tions, by which the Tumor will often be j fo much leffened, that a Repetition of the j Preffure (which before had failed) will * Sharpe’s Crit. Enq. p. 21. now](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21513703_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
