M0010669: Cheselden: A Treatise on the High Operation for stone, 1723: title page

Date:
04 June 1948
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/94/43
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: M0010669: Cheselden: <i>A Treatise on the High Operation for stone</i>, 1723: title page. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ny leparation of these fibres in paf fing the fingers, or forceps into the bladder. Before we go about this opera¬ tion, it feems necelfary that the in- teftines ihould be emptied, to pre¬ vent their prefling upon the bladder. For this purpole, I ordered my pa¬ tients a flender diet, for about two days, and clyIters a little before the operation. The patient being placed upon a bed, or quilt laid upon a table, widi his head on a pillow, his legs off the table, his thighs raised, and his back a little hol¬ low, lo as to relax the abdominal mufi cles j then we pals a ligature loosely above each knee, and fatten it to the outfide of the table, an afliftant on each fide holding his hands. And having palled the catheter ; ano¬ ther afliftant grasping the penis gent¬ ly with his hand, to prevent a re¬ flux of the water; we injedt as much warm