Identifier: operativesurgery00pipe (find matches)
Title: Operative surgery illustrated : containing more than nineteen hundred engravings : including two hundred original, and fifty colored drawings: with explanatory text
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Piper, Richard Upton, 1816-1897 Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890. Anaesthetic agents, their mode of exhibition, and physiological effects
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Ether General Surgery
Publisher: Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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PLATE cxi.) OPERATIVE SURGERY ILLUSTRATED. 193 PLATE CXI. Fig. 1. Hydrocele. Fig. 2. Puncture of hydrocele by the process of Baudens. Theinstrument is allowed to remain, in order to excite adhesive inflam-mation. Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9. Instrument of Baudens. Figs. 11, 12, 13. Common trocar. Figs. 3, 5. Operation for Hydrocele. The surgeon graspsthe tumor behind, and introduces a trocar and canula into the sac,pointing the instrument upward, so that it may not wound the tes-ticle. He next withdraws the trocar, at the same time pushing thecanula well into the sac. The direction of the instrument is changedsomewhat after its introduction, as seen in Fig. 3. When all theserum has escaped, the surgeon injects from two to four ounces ofsome stimulating fluid through the canula by means of an elasticbottle, fitted with a stop-cock, or by means of the syringe, (Fig. 4.) Fig. 10. Puncture of the Bladder through the Rec-tum is performed when urine is extravasated, and in most cases ofimpassable stri

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