Identifier: scienceartofsurg02eric (find matches)
Title: The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Erichsen, John Eric, 1818-1896
Subjects: Surgical Procedures, Operative Surgery
Publisher: Philadelphia : H.C. Lea
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fig.,778.—Urethral Forceps. Should these means fail, or should the fragment be very deeply seated,as in the memhrauous portion of the urethra, and the local and con-stitutional irritation produced by it be so gieat as to threaten abscessor a fatal termination, the better plan would be to maiie an incision
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pig_ 779.—Urethral Forceps, with Alligator-jaw action. The smaller figure presents theJaw of Forceps opened. directly down upon it, and to remove it through the i)eriiijenm by amedian operation of lithotomy. If such an o()eratioii as this be re-quired, the Surgeon might possibly feel disposed to extend the incisiona little, and emi)ty the bladder of any remaiuing detritus by means of ascoop. The Chronic Enlargement of the Prostate of old people com-plicates seriously the operatiou of litiiotrity, not only in rendering theintroduction of instruments move difficult, but in offering an obstacle totlie expulsion of the fragments. Enlarged prostate cannot, however, beconsidered to be by any means an insuperaljle bar to lithotrity ; as,after the stone has been crushed, the bladder uiay be emptied by meansof the scoop, by Clovers apparatus, or by Sir P. Cramptons device,which consists in exhausting the air from a properly constructed bottle,fitted with a stop-cock, and then attaching this

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