A Treatise on the High Operation for the Stone

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1723 edition. Excerpt: ... any thing of its virtue, as it may be by clyfters into the fartheft parts of the crafla inteftina; befides the urinary excrements will not fall into the upper part of the bladder that is cut, but into the lower, which is then well and not hurt, whence they may he continually evacuated without any harm, as the patient pleases, because then the fplincter muscle, which hinders any urine parting againft ones will, will as we here affirm, receive no damage. I knowingly pals by the easy retention of the tube in the.penis, if the urine fhould happen not to pafs well, which the common Lithotomifts are wont often to make use of, before the doling of the wound. Hence it fans poflible, that an incifion may be O JL / farely made in the inner part of the bladder, without touching the part that receives the ureters, and this both reafon perfuades and experience confirms definitive explication of an dphorifm of Hippocrates from Mmfelf and Ariflotle, UT If any person will not believe those reasons, nor inftances that have been, or fhall be produced, holding raft Hippocrates's flaff of authority upon which he entirely relies, I will foon (Hippocrates himfelf consenting) make nim, by the affiftance of Ariftotle quit his hold. But it is beft to hear himself explaining his own meaning. Wounds, lays he, (in the fecond prorhetic) are in the firft place more ire made upon the large fre veflels, in the neck, and in the groins. Secondly, those that are made upon the brain and liver. Thirdly, those that are made upon the inteftines and the bladder. The wounds in all these places are very dangerous, but not (o, that no body ever escapes. For the places which are called by these names, differ very much from one another, fb likewise there is also a great difference in...