A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery / By Samuel Sharp.

  • Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778.
Date:
1750
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery / By Samuel Sharp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    we are ordered to pufh a pointed Diredtor obliquely forward between Lamina and La- mina, cutting them as it advances till we ar¬ rive within the Herniary Sack, and then to proceed in the manner juft now deferibed: This Meafure is calculated to obviate the Dan¬ ger of wounding the Intejlines ; but it is a tedious Procefs, and I queftion whether it be more fafe than cutting gradually a fmall Orifice through the feveral Laminae with the Point of the Knife. It is hardly of any importance how fmall the Orifice is, for if it admit only the blunt End of a Probe into the Sack, you may by lifting it up enlarge the Orifice at Pleafure, tho’ generally there is Water in the Sack which rufhes out at the Orifice, and fhews evidently there is Space for the fafe dilatation of the Wound. Yet it muft be confefs’d, this is a part of the Operation, which perhaps demands the moft Delicacy in operating of any other. When the Herniary Sack is laid open from its very Bottom up to the Rings of the Mufcles, ^nd the Blood-Veffels tied, if any Haemorrhage has enfued, we are then to profecute the Opera¬ tion according to the State of the Vifcera: In an Entero Epiplocele, if the Omentum be not mortified, it is advifeable to return it entire into the i