The present practice of surgery : containing the description, causes, and treatment of each complaint; together with the most approved methods of operating / by Robert White, M.D. and practitioner in surgery.

  • White, Robert, active 1786-1792.
Date:
1786
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Credit: The present practice of surgery : containing the description, causes, and treatment of each complaint; together with the most approved methods of operating / by Robert White, M.D. and practitioner in surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    relieved, it will be abfolutely neceffary to divide that part, and to prefcribe a mercurial courfe. A proper divifion is generally requifite, when the glans IS naturally too tightly covered. When the prepuce is not much thickened and inr durated, an incifion only may anfwer the purpofe, and the moft eligible and ready manner of making, it, is that propofed by the ingenious Mr. Bell; fince it obviates the feveral inconveniences which attend the common mode of cutting it upwards with the knife, or fciffars. It is done by paffing a director along the fide of the prepuce, between that and the glans, with a (harp-pointed narrow-bladed biftoury adapted thereto,' and buried in its. groove widi the edge forward: as foon as the end of the director is felt at the termination behind the corona, the point of the biftoury is pufhed through the prepuce, and drawn forward the whole length. Should the end, or chief part of the fkin be greatly indurated, it will be neceffary to draw the prepuce forward, and take it off with the knife, or to cut off' the whole of it, taking care to fecure the veffels. with the ligature. The firft dreffings fhould be ftrips of foft lint, properly interpofed between the edges of the wound, in cafe of a partial incifion, alfo, between the prer puce and glans, to prevent adhefion ; linen com? prefs, and the fufpenlbry. Paraphymosis.