Identifier: minorsurgeryband00whar (find matches)
Title: Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, etc.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wharton, Henry R. (Henry Redwood), 1853-1925
Subjects: Surgery, Minor Bandages
Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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f the electric-lampinstruments. A cystoscope consists of a beaked sound inwhich there is a telescopic arrangement, by which the innersurface of the bladder is viewed through a small windowof rock crystal. The lamp is enclosed in the beak of theinstrument and throws its light through another window,also of crystal, upon any part of the bladder wall. Thebladder should contain six or eight ounces of clear urine THE URETHROSCOPE. 223 or dear water if a proper view of the walls is to be ob-tained. If the fluid is turbid or contains blood, the viewis very much obscured; if too little fluid be present in thebladder, the beak of the instrument containing the lampis likelv to become buried in the folds of mucous mem-brane and the light will be cut off, and the mucous mem-brane may be burned. The bladder may be emptied ofurine anddistended with air which accomplishes the samepurpose. A certain amount of practice is required to usethe cystoscope properly and to recognize the appearance Fig. 156.
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Illumination of the wall of bladder by cystoscope. (Park.) of the mucous membrane of the bladder in health and inits varied morbid conditions. The Urethroscope.—The urethroscope consists of astraight metal tube provided with an obturator of hardrubber, which projects slightly beyond the end of the tube.This tube is introduced into the urethra until the bladderis reached, when it is slightly withdrawn and the obturatorremoved. The instrument is then attached to the mirrorof an electric lamp, by which a strong light is thrown intothe tube, and as the tube is withdrawn the urethra is ex- 224 MINOR SURGERY. posed to view. By means of the urethroscope a very accurate inspection of all portions of the urethra can be obtained. Fig. 157.

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