A treatise of chirurgical operations after the newest, and most exact method founded on the structure of the parts ... : to which is annex'd A general idea of wounds / written originally by Joseph De la Charier ; and translated into English by R. B.
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A treatise of chirurgical operations after the newest, and most exact method founded on the structure of the parts ... : to which is annex'd A general idea of wounds / written originally by Joseph De la Charier ; and translated into English by R. B.
Author
La Charrière, Joseph de, d. 1690.
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London :: Printed for Dan. Brown ...,
MDCXCV [1695]
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Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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"A treatise of chirurgical operations after the newest, and most exact method founded on the structure of the parts ... : to which is annex'd A general idea of wounds / written originally by Joseph De la Charier ; and translated into English by R. B." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47964.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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CHAP. XIII. Of Castration.
THE Patient being laid on his Back, the Surgeon Incises with a very sharp Instrument, the Membranes of the Scrotum upon the Body of the Te∣sticle, to discover the carnosity, which must be separated from the Dartos, without offending the cover of the se∣minal Vessels; being freed from the Neighbouring parts, you make the li∣gature of the Vessels between the Rings and the tumor; you must cut them half the length of a Finger from the ligature, and take away the Testicle with the Sarcoma; you leave an end of the Thread out of the Wound (a∣voiding to pull the Spermatick Vessels to you, or compress them too hard, lest the Patient shou'd fall into a Con∣vulsion) that they may not slip in∣to the Belly where they wou'd shed Blood, and so cause Death in a little time: If the tumor be considerable, scirrhous, inflam'd, painful, and pos∣fess both the Testicles; and of conti∣nuance, the Operation is very danger∣ous.
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If the productions of the Peritonae∣um be carcinomatous, and you have a design to make the Operation, you must first consume the Flesh by the help of potential cauteries, or molifie them by a powerful suppuration, yet it must be avoided if the tumor ex∣tend it self into the cavity of the Bel∣ly, for the reasons before mentioned. When the superfluous Flesh is consum'd, and the Eschar fallen, if the Vessel be preserved, you make the ligature by the Rings of the Muscles, and take away the Testicle, as I have said; for should you make it before the fall of the Eschar, the Patient would suffer dangerous Convulsions. You fill the Wound afterwards with Dossils dip'd in some digestive, and emborate, and apply defensitives, compresses, with a suspensorium, or∣dering Bleeding, Clysters, and other general Remedies.