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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![[ '4 ] - | ' ’ ^ A which, though it may happen to cure the difeafe radically, muft be regarded as an ob¬ jection to his operation, from its being pro¬ ductive of greater violence than is expeCted by the Patient, or defigned by the Surgeon. , 1 -if •’ Le Dran fpeaks in favor of the common Trochar, and therefore needs no comment here : it may, however, be neceffary to at¬ tend to his remark, that the cyflis muft be full, in order to admit of the punCture. • *< ■ • j, ■ , . -V Sharpe’s punCture by the Lancet, and his introduction of the Probe inftead of the canula, is certainly no improvement on Wifeman’s operation; the canula being clearly preferable to the Probe. He leaves unfupported by any kind of reafoning, his recommendation of the punCture by the Trochar, in thofe cafes of the Hydrocele, in which the tunica vaginalis is grown thick and tough: nor can I fuggeft any; for it Ihould rather appear, that the tough- nefs of the tunica vaginalis might render the punCture by the Trochar more liable to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30792472_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
