Pharmaco-botanologia: or, an alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory ... Decad. II / [Patrick Blair].

  • Patrick Blair
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1724
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Credit: Pharmaco-botanologia: or, an alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory ... Decad. II / [Patrick Blair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 28 ] vity of the Bladder. In Mari anus’s Operation, the Wound being neceffarily very fniall, the Management of the Inftruments, and efpecially of the Forceps, mu ft be much more difficult than in Mr. Chefelderis, where a large outward Incifion affords Room enough to turn them in any Direction that can be defired. In the next place, the largeft Stone will eafily pafs thro’ Mr. Chefelderis Wound; but in the old Operation, a Stone larger than the Diameter of the Wound, as it frequently hap¬ pens to be, muff, when it is brought as far as the Skin, ::orce that outwards along with it, and fo, befrdes the Difficulty this caufes in the Extraction, break and dis¬ order the Texture of the cellular Membrane, imme¬ diately under or within it; the Confequence of which muft be GbftruCtions and other Diforders, which being communicated to the Scrotum, dangerous Inflamma¬ tions, Tumours, and even Mortifications, may happen in that tender Part. There are Inftances, indeed, of very large Stones extracted in the old Way, but then, the Confticution of the Patient has been good enough to ward off the fatal EffeCts of the Accidents I have mentioned ; or the Operator has ventured to enlarge the outward Wound by an oblique Incifion thro’ the Integuments, before he could draw out the Stone. In the third place, a large external Orifice mightily facili¬ tates the Cure, by allowing free Room for a Difcharge of Matter, and affording a larger Quantity of that Gleet, as it may be termed, which is the Fore-runner of Digeftion 3 and likewife preventing the Danger of a Mor-
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