Account of an elastic trochar, constructed on a new principle, for tapping the hydrocele, or watery rupture : by which the operation may be performed at any period of the disease, and with less pain than with the common trochar. With a few words in favor of a larger trochar, on a similar construction, for tapping the abdomen / By John Andree.

  • Andree, John, approximately 1740-approximately 1820
Date:
1781
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Credit: Account of an elastic trochar, constructed on a new principle, for tapping the hydrocele, or watery rupture : by which the operation may be performed at any period of the disease, and with less pain than with the common trochar. With a few words in favor of a larger trochar, on a similar construction, for tapping the abdomen / By John Andree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    26/44 (page 28)
    £ -B j On the large Trochar. i f ] i A Similar Trqchar, of a larger iize3 may alfo be ufed for the Alcites, or JDropfy of the Belly, and will be found to have the fame advantages over the common ones viz. that it will enter with more eafe to the Operator, and lefs pain to the Patient j and that it may be ufed with fafety in an early ftate of the dif~ eafe. 7 ^Early tapping in the Abdominal Dropfy * In Sharpe’s Operations of Surgery, defcribing the Trochar for the Dropfy of the Belly, are thele words: 5C Great care lhould be taken, that the Per. forator fiiould exaftlyfill up the cavity of the Canula; for, unlefs the extremity of the Canula lies quite clofe and l'mooth on the Perforator, the introduction of it mto i