Observations on lithotomy, and on the formation of urinary calculi / by John Charles Litchfield.

  • Litchfield, John Charles.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on lithotomy, and on the formation of urinary calculi / by John Charles Litchfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    THE OPERATION. The table, on which the patient is to be placed, observes Sir Astley Cooper, should be two feet six inches high; it is to be covered with two blankets and a sheet, and several pillows are required to support the patient's head and back. Three bandages are required to secure the patient; of these, two are employed to confine each hand and foot of the same side together: a loop, at one extre- mity, is first passed around the wrist, and the patient then grasps the outer side of the foot; about its middle, having the bandage passing from the wrist, between the two; the bandage is then passed under the foot, brought round on its inner side over the instep, and so round the wrist and ancle : after two or three