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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    C 3° ] eonfiderable quantity of water being judged neceffary to yield fufficient relifL ance to the inftrument, to keep it from wounding the vifcera. This exception however may certainly be obviated by the ufe of this Trochar, lince, as it may be introduced without force, a very fmall quantity of water will fuffice to keep its point from doing mifchief. But another kind of Dropfy (of which I do not recoiled; to have met with an inftance in any writer on this difeafe) fometimes occurs, in which early tap¬ ping becomes a moft delirable objed,* in order - «-«- ———— * In the Anafarca, or Dropfy of the Cellular Membrane, it is likewife often neceffary to procure the difcharge of the water by a furgical operation, defcribed