A treatise on the pneumatic aspiration of morbid fluids : a medico-chirurgical method of diagnosis and treatment of cysts and abscesses of the liver - strangulated hernia - retention of urine - pericarditis - pleurisy - hydarthrosis, &c / by Dr. Georges Dieulafoy.

  • Dieulafoy, Georges, 1839-1911.
Date:
1873
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Credit: A treatise on the pneumatic aspiration of morbid fluids : a medico-chirurgical method of diagnosis and treatment of cysts and abscesses of the liver - strangulated hernia - retention of urine - pericarditis - pleurisy - hydarthrosis, &c / by Dr. Georges Dieulafoy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART I. PNEUMATIC ASPIRATION IN GENERAL. CHAPTEK I. CoNCERNING ÀSFIRATORS AND ASPIRATION.—HlSTORY.—T UE STATE op Science before and after the 2nd of Novembre, 1869. On the 2nd of November, 1869, Profeasor Gubler presented, in my name, to tbe Academy of Medicine, an apparatus which I bad named an aspirator, and a paper giving a general view of a method called aspiration. In tbis paper I sbowed bow aspiration constitutes a metbod of diagnosis and treatment, by means of wbicb we can proceed witb certainty and witbout danger in our searcb for patbological fiuids, whatever may be tbeir seat or their nature. Ex- ploratory punctures, less sure and sometimes dangerous, will bencefortb give place to aspiratory punctures, always harmless. Tbe most délicate organs of the economy will be traversed witbout any bad results, and collections of üuid bidden in the deptbs of tbe tissues, will not escape our means of investigation in future. I said, in tbis paper, tbat urine could be aspirated in cases of rétention, and tbat strangulated hernia could be reduced after tbe as- piration of tbe gas and fiuids wbicb distend tbe intestine, b 2