Appendix to a Proposal for a new manner of cutting for the stone / [John Thomson].

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846
Date:
1810
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Credit: Appendix to a Proposal for a new manner of cutting for the stone / [John Thomson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Let him have some Worm and Laxative powders with him. Dismissed cured.” i * I • I There are only two circumstances mentioned in Ithe history of this case, which seem worthy of notice. One of these is, the form of the staff used in the operation; and the other, the discharge of worms which took place during the cure. I was induced to make trial of a staff of the (form described, partly, in consequence of having repeatedly used it with advantage, as I thought, in operating upon the dead body; and partly also with a view to render the operation more simple, by dispensing with the use of the straight staff, which I had recommended in the “ Proposal.” In using the curved staff, however, in this operation, I met with considerable difficulty in carrying the point of the knife forwards along its groove; and this cir¬ cumstance, obliged me to take up more time in the performance of the operation, than perhaps would Otherwise have been necessary. That the patient, however, received no injury by the manner in which he was cut, is evident from the reports con¬ tained in the history of the case, and from the re- Bult of the operation. The very frequent occurrence of worms in the intestines of children who have stone in the blad- i I I