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Acute abdomen - Early works to 1800

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    Account of an elastic trochar, constructed on a new principle, for tapping the hydrocele, or Watery rupture: By which the operation may be performed at any period of the disease, and with less pain than with the common trochar. With a few words in favour of a larger trochar, on a similar construction, for tapping the abdomen. By John Andree, surgeon to the Magdalen Hospital, and the finsbury dispensary.

    Andree, John, approximately 1740-approximately 1820. | Date: M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]
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