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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![f *3 ] With equal facility the practice of other refpcdable Authors might be added j but, having given the above faithful extrads from the lateft and moil approved writers on this difeafe, I fliall reft here, judging they will be forcible enough to prove, that the beft mode of operating has not yet been afeer- tained. But a few curfory obfervations on each of thefe Authors, appear in fome meafure ne- ceflary to the further illuftration of the fub- jed. To take them then in order. Firft, Wifeman’s method has the inconvenience of requiring the ufe of two inftruments, and of being frequently attended with great difficulty in getting the canula into the wound made by the Lancet. ' Befides which, from the hiftories of cafes given in is Treatifs on the Hydrocele, it is evident, that this method is more liable, than the pundure by the Trochar, to be followed °y a general inflammation of the parts, which.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30792472_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
