Pharmaco-botanologia: or, an alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory ... Decad. II / [Patrick Blair].

  • Blair, Patrick, -1728.
Date:
1724
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Pharmaco-botanologia: or, an alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory ... Decad. II / [Patrick Blair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    101/108 (page 41)
    [4> ] From whence he very judicioufly inferred, that if he could once bring the Parts in a Male, to an Equality in Difpofition with thofe that are dilated in a Female, he fliould not at all doubt of having the fame Succefs5 and indeed the Event has abundantly anfwered his Expecta¬ tion. Now, in order to bring this about, he refolved for the future, previoufly to divide the Parts that were capable of giving any Rehftance, and very fubjeCt to be torn 5 that is, he cuts with his Knife, and divides laterally the membranous Part of the Urethra, which is much narrower than in Women; the tranfverle Liga¬ ment, which is vaftly ffronger than in Women; and the proftate Gland, which in fome Subjects is very hard and firm, but in all is cafed round by a tendinous Membrane of a very compact Texture; and befides, as a Capfula, binds its whole Subftance very clofe together. Thus, all the Refiftance being taken off, the Parts readily yield, and the Operation becomes equally fafe in both Sexes; and thus this new Method is free from fome Inconveniences, which, even in Women, muff arife from too great a Dilatation, and tearing the Ure¬ thra and Orifice of the Bladder; the Sides of which he divides in Men, and thereby prevents the Danger. Thus if plainly appears that Mr. Chefelderis Ope¬ ration, as now praCtifed by himfelf, is not to be found altogether or complete in any one Writer extant. Bu T, G