Cases and remarks in surgery : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing the method of curing the bronchocele in Coventry / by B. Wilmer.

  • Wilmer, Bradford.
Date:
1779
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Credit: Cases and remarks in surgery : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing the method of curing the bronchocele in Coventry / by B. Wilmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A DESCRIPTION of the PRE¬ SENT METHOD of OPERAT¬ ING for the STONE. W O days before the operation, if the patient is plethoric, fome blood fhould be taken from the arm, and he may ufe a warm bath in the evening. The next day after bleeding, a proper dofe of manna and Rochelle fait fhould be given in the morning, and at bed-time an anodyne draught is to be adminiftered. A common clyfter muft be injedled into the redtum, two hours before the operation; and after its difcharge the patient fhould be inftrud- cd to retain his urine, that the pofterior part of the bladder may be fecured from injury when the cutting gorget is intro¬ duced. The perinseum having been lhaved, and the patient properly fecured upon a table of convenient ftrudure, the furgeon muft pafs the groove^ftaff into the bladder; by inclining its handle obliquely toward the right