Chirurgical observations relative to the epiphora, or watery eye, the scrophulous and intermittent ophthalmy, the extraction of the cataract, and the introduction of the male catheter / by James Ware, surgeon.

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1792
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Credit: Chirurgical observations relative to the epiphora, or watery eye, the scrophulous and intermittent ophthalmy, the extraction of the cataract, and the introduction of the male catheter / by James Ware, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fame, in the ufe of the catheter; i-fNot- withflanding which, if the length of that inflrument were increafed to aboiit t\V£;lve inches, according to the reprefentatipniof it on the plate annexed, which is more thari an inch above the ordinary length, .1 be-j lieve the facihty;; of i^fing it, W9uld, often be in no fmall de;gree increafed.. The figure,Jull- referred to, is taken froiti an inftrument which I have long made ufe of myfelf; and haVe found it fo oftefi to fucceed, wh^re others of a differe'nt; -fize and curvature have failed, that I heg leavfe to recommend it : .to .the/nbjtic© ,-of---^^^ fo- ciety. With regard to the pofture of the paltient during the operation* I have performed it at different times when this has beeq much varied. .. I have generally found.it. rmj^fticon- venient for the patient to ftand, with his back againft the wainfcot of the room, and the furgeon to be feated ,before hiijj, . Jfj however, the patient be very infirm, the operation may be performed either in a fit- ting or more reclined poflure, whichever he?