A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . silver canula. It is employed for drawing off various kinds of fluids, as serumand pus. Its use, at the present day, is chiefly confined to the removal of waterfrom the chest, abdomen, and vaginal tunic of the testicle. There is an instru-ment of this kind with a flat, spear-shaped extremity, but it is not much em-ployed, its canula being more liable to obstruction than that of the roundtrocar. There are few instruments which the surgeon has occasion to use more fre-quently than needles; they may be straight or curved
A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . silver canula. It is employed for drawing off various kinds of fluids, as serumand pus. Its use, at the present day, is chiefly confined to the removal of waterfrom the chest, abdomen, and vaginal tunic of the testicle. There is an instru-ment of this kind with a flat, spear-shaped extremity, but it is not much em-ployed, its canula being more liable to obstruction than that of the roundtrocar. There are few instruments which the surgeon has occasion to use more fre-quently than needles; they may be straight or curved, round or flat, and shouldbe of various sizes, as in fig. 120. In some instances, as when we are obliged CHAP. XIII. INCISIONS. 443 Fig. 120. Fig.
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