A memoir on the cutting gorget of Hawkins .. : To which is added, A biographical account of J.B. Carcano Leone .. / Tr. from the Italian by J.H. Wishart.

  • Scarpa, Antonio, 1752-1832.
Date:
1816
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Credit: A memoir on the cutting gorget of Hawkins .. : To which is added, A biographical account of J.B. Carcano Leone .. / Tr. from the Italian by J.H. Wishart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it were, spontaneously, form an aperture of ten lines; but, in an adult, a stone of an ordi- nary size, and of an oval shape, is sixteen lines in its smallest diameter, to which it isproperto add the size of the blades of the forceps. In this case, after the lateral incision is per- formed with the greatest attention, a stone, even of moderate size, will not pass out of the bladder, unless the dilatation of the base of the prostate and of the orifice of the bladder be ex- tended to about eight lines more than the aper- ture' made by the lateral incision. Because, if, in order to avoid this distention to eight lines, an incision were made to an equal depth in the base of the prostate, and in the orifice of the bladder, and a portion of its. body, it would infallibly occasion infiltrations of urine into the cellular substance between the rec- tum and bladder,and subsequently gangrenous abscesses, fistulae, and other severe accidents. We are informed, in fact, by Sharp, * that Cheselden, in his first trial, divided a portion of the body of this viscus; but Sharp likewise in- forms us, that Cheselden was under the ne- cessity of laying aside this mode of operating, on account of the injury arising from the in- ♦ Critical Inquiry, Chap, v,