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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    convex part of it was made to project againft the left fide of the raphe in perinaeo, and was kept in that pofition by an afiiftant, whilft another perfori held up the fcrotum. An incifion was made from near the bottom of that part, and continued to within about three quarters of an inch of the anus, in the courfe of the ftaff; then turning the back of the knife towards the rectum, the point was flipped forwards in the groove; a great part of the buib of the urethra was divided, and the incifion was conti- nued to the proftate gland: the beak of the gorget was then placed into the groove of the ftaff, and pufhed through the gland, the reft of the urethra, and the neck of -the bladder; thefe parts were then dilated by the fore-finger, the forceps were intro- duced, and the ftone was extracted. This mode of operating may be reafonably ob- jected to, on account of making a longer wound than neceflary, the violent diftenfion and laceration of the parts next the bladder, and the difficulty of extracting large ftones. In confideration of which laft objection, Pierre Franco is faid to have con- trived the Apparatus Altm. The High Operation. This operation after having been difcontinued full 150 years, was revived in London, anno 1719, and performed as follows : The patient being properly difpofed upon a table, with his head lower than his breech, fo that the ab- dominal mufcles might be in fome degree relaxed, a filver catheter adapted at one end to a flexible leathern