The anatomy of the humane body / By W. Cheselden.

  • Cheselden, William, 1688-1752.
Date:
1763
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    lower in hopes of improving it, but found I was .milftaken. But what is of moft confe- quence to be known is the ages of thofe who re- covered, and thofe who died. Of thefe, under ten years of age one hundred and five were cut, three died; between ten and twenty, fixty-two cut, four died; twenty and thirty, twelve cut, three died; thirty and forty, ten cut, two died; — forty and fifty, ten cut, two died; fifty and fixty, feven cut, four died; fixty and feven- ty, five cut, one died; between feventy and eighty, two cut, onedied, Of thofe who re- covered the three biggeft ftones were 3% xii, x4, and viii, and the greateft number of {tones in any one perfon was thirty-three. One of the three that died out of the hundred and five, was very ill with a whooping cough; another bled to death by an artery into the bladder, it being very hot weather at that time: But this accident taught me afterwards whenever a veflel bled that I could not find, to dilate the wound with a knife, till I could fee it, Now if Jacques or others who of late have been faid to have performed this operation, whether by defign or chance, did not take care to fecure the blood-veflels, -which as yet has not been fuppofed, whatever their dexte- rity in operating might be, their fuccefs at leait can be no fecret, for many of their children and moft of their men patients muft have bled to death. If I have any reputation in this way, ) Sew I have