An account of some diseases of the toes and fingers with observations on their treatment / James Wardrop.
- Wardrop, James.
- Date:
- 1814
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of some diseases of the toes and fingers with observations on their treatment / James Wardrop. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
80/132 page 22
![] disappointed. The staff hein. with drawn, diligent search was again n.ade with the Z Ttl^l The staff wa a third time passed into the bladder, and with the same result as before; but neither with tile fingers, introduced through the wound and in- to the rectum, nor with the forceps, could I discover the stone. My colleague Dr. Brown, at my re- quest, repeated the search with the forceps; but as he was not more successful than I had been, we agreed to put the patient to bed, and to desist for a time from any further trials. In putting the patient to bed, in the circum- stances which have been described, I followed a rule, which I have for several years delivered to the gentlemen attending my Surgical Lectures • VIZ. That when a stone cannot be felt, after pro- per incisions have been made into the bladder, and after a careful examination with the fingers, for- ceps and searcher, we ought to desist from the ««e of instruments, to put the patient to bed, and to defer any further attempts at finding the stone, until after the abatement of the fever from the operation. This rule, I was led to suggest, from my observation of the injurious effects, which arise from the friction of the for- ceps upoh the inner surface of the bladder; from my knowledge of the fact, that small stones which could not -he felt after the most diligent search at the period of operation, have afterwards been pas- sed, spontaneously, through the wound : and like- wise, from the instances that have been mentioned](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21453081_0080.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
