Account of an elastic trochar, constructed on a new principle, for tapping the hydrocele and abdomen / [John Andree].

  • Andree, John, approximately 1740-approximately 1820
Date:
1782
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Credit: Account of an elastic trochar, constructed on a new principle, for tapping the hydrocele and abdomen / [John Andree]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * - - quantitc, & quc le fujet eft, a ccla pres, d’une bonne conftitution.” * i i Mr. Pott, in his truly fcientific Treatifc on the Hydrocele, fays, “ the Trochar is to be preferred to the Lancet, becaufe, by means of its canula, it fecures the exit of the whole fluid, without a poffibility of prevention; which the Lancet cannot.” The late Mr. Chcfelden, who knew more of practical furgery than moft authors, was fo convinced of the impcrfedion of the com-, mon Hydrocele Trochar, as to forbid its uie; adding, “ that he had often known it productive of very mifchievous effects.” Vide _ ^ . £_■ Chefelden’s Obfervations in the Englifh Edi¬ tion of Lc Dran’s Surgery. * In Englifh: ‘‘The palliative cure con lifts in yak¬ ing, a pundure with the Lancet or Trochar, and cures the difeafe in children without a return, when it is re¬ cent, when the water has not been fufFercd to colic# in too great a quantity, and when the fubjeft is jn other refpefts of a good conftitution.” With
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