Identifier: onbandagingother00sarg (find matches)
Title: On bandaging and other operations of minor surgery
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Sargent, F. W. (Fitzwilliam), 1820-1889 Atlee, W. F
Subjects: Military Medicine Bandages Surgical Procedures, Minor Bandages and bandaging Surgery, Minor Medicine, Military
Publisher: Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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edby the dotted line and the star; at a the nozzle of the syringe(a) is received; the fluid from the latter passes along to thebladder through the eye marked by one of the arrows, and isreturned from the bladder through that marked by the other,to escape from the catheter by d. The stilet c is for the pur-pose of removing any obstruction which may occur in the ca-theter; it is made of steel, so thin and flexible as to be capableof being readily pushed into the chambers of the instrument,as indicated by the dotted curved line. (See Mr. Fergussonsbook, p. 588.) Care should be taken, that the fluid thus introduced intothe bladder has been freed from all solid matter which, if re-tained, would serve as the nucleus for calculous formations;it should, moreover, be tepid in temperature, and of a slightlymucilaginous character. In injecting the urethra of the female, a catheter shouldfirst be inserted within the orifice of the canal, the beak of the ADMINISTRATION OF INJECTIONS. 331 Fig. 166.
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syringe adapted to it, and then the fluid forced through thetube into the urethra. 4. Injection by the lachrymal duct. The instrument by means of which this is accomplished, isknown by the name of Anels syringe ; it is a small syringehaving a number of very fine tubes appertaining to it, one ofwhich, when the duct is to be injected, is attached to the beakof the syringe and then inserted into the inferior puncturelachrymal. The method of using the instrument is thus de-scribed by Malgaigne : Seat the patient opposite the light.If you operate on the left eye, stand before him, and withthe thumb or fingers of your left hand draw the lower lid out-wards and a little downwards, so as to direct the lachrymalpuncture forwards and outwards. Then, having filled thesyringe and applied one of the small tubes to the beak, holdthe instrument as a pen in your right hand, which you reston the cheek, and carefully insert the end of the tube in thepuncture; first, obliquely downwards and inwards, the

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