Cases, and observations on lithotomy : including hints for the more ready and safe performance of the operation ... : to which are added, observations on the chimney-sweeper's cancer, and other miscellaneous remarks / by W. Simmons.

  • Simmons, W. (William), 1762-1830.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Cases, and observations on lithotomy : including hints for the more ready and safe performance of the operation ... : to which are added, observations on the chimney-sweeper's cancer, and other miscellaneous remarks / by W. Simmons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is, I believe, pretty generally agreed among surgeons, that the opening into the urethra in the operation of lithotomy, should be made in the membranous portion; a point on which they insist, in order to avoid wounding the bulb, from which hemorrhage, and other unpleasant consequences, might ensue. For the attainment of this object, however, the directions given by practical writers are not very precise; and perhaps less so than the subject itself is susceptible of, « Sir James Earle, well aware of the ne- cessity of facilitating that part of the opera- tion which relates to the introduction of the beak of the gorget into the groove of the staff, through the divided portion of the urethra, has endeavoured to supply what he has considered the ‘ desideratum’ for its due execution. This consists in an ingenious contrivance, which he has denominated a * double staff,’ the de^ription, and repre- sentation of which will be. found in his ‘ Appendix to a Treatise on the Operation