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.

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    [ 39 ] Propfy has been ftrcngly recommended by home of the heft Phyficians, on this principle, that when the water cannot be taken up by the abforbent vcffels, and carried off by the natural outlets, it is likely to injure the bowels greatly, by v, - keeping them conftantly macerated in water. • The reafonablenefs of this the- T'a ory ftruck me fo forcibly, that I could not but entirely acquielce in it, without the leaft hefitation, But, fuch early tapping has not been hitherto conftdered as a fafe operation; a conft- . .-. . , into the Abdomen will be very painful: to make it flip in more eafily, the edge of the extremity of the Canula fhould be thin and fharp: and I would recom¬ mend that the Canula be Steel; for the Silver one^ being of too foft a metal, becomes jagged, or bruifed^ at its extremity, with very little ufe.’>