Remarks on hepatic phlebotomy, and puncturing the liver's capsule, as curative procedures in hepatic disease.

  • Harley, George, 1829-1896.
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[1886]
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Credit: Remarks on hepatic phlebotomy, and puncturing the liver's capsule, as curative procedures in hepatic disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    noedlos in painful affections, and my operation being performed with trocars and cannulaj in a diseased state of the organ which is anything but painful, one would imagine might presuppose that the two forms of oporative procedure were entirely distinct. Except in so far as the same organ happens to be the one operated on, and the instruments employed possess tho same form. Some of our associates, however, appearing to be of a different opinion, and no doubt having good grounds for their beliof, I would suggest that they furnish us with all the facts in their possession regarding acupuncture of the liver as practised by tho Chinose. I must candidly admit I know nothing whatever regarding it, except from the vague and unsatisfactory statements that have at various times appeared in our weekly medical journals, from the pens of men who, though writing as if they knew all about it, never by any chance whatever, as far as I am aware, con- descend to furnish their readers with a single particular. So soon as my critics have detailed the grounds of their criticisms on this point, I shall, to the best of my ability, duly consider and com- ment upon them. Meanwhile, I think I have said sufficient to prove that Messrs. Smith, Alexander, Ryau, and Quill have erred in con- founding two entirely new operations with two totally distinct old ones, with which they have nothing whatever in common, either as regards nature or design.