Essay on some of the stages of the operation of cutting for the stone.

  • Charles Brandon Trye
Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Essay on some of the stages of the operation of cutting for the stone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    bladder of blood, to discover the bleeding vessel, and to restrain the haemorrhage, were probably extremely injurious, as on the suc- ceeding day, great pain and tenderness of the belly came on, with sickness and other * symptoms of peritonitis, and he died on the third or fourth day. The nicest investiga- tion after death could not discover the source of the bleeding, nor did dissection discover any thing unnatural, except an * inflamed state of the bladder, and perito- neum. • \ s . I used in this case what I imagined to be an improvement on the invention of a gentleman in Dublin; after the urethra was pierced in perineo, a grooved straight conductor was passed along the staff into the bladder, by which conductor a beaked knife is guided to the division of the pros- tate. But such a conductor produces the disadvantage of evacuating the urine before
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