The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . w line of cicatrix isleft, by which the patient is by no means inconvenienced. In somecases I have found adhesions between the prepuce and the glans; theserequire to be torn or dissected through, but no inconvenience resultsfrom this slight addition to the operation. If sloughing of the prepuce have occurred, allowing the glans to pro-trude, as in Fig. 831, circumcision must be practised. Tiie chief points to be attended to in the performance of this opera-tion, and on which its after success is
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . w line of cicatrix isleft, by which the patient is by no means inconvenienced. In somecases I have found adhesions between the prepuce and the glans; theserequire to be torn or dissected through, but no inconvenience resultsfrom this slight addition to the operation. If sloughing of the prepuce have occurred, allowing the glans to pro-trude, as in Fig. 831, circumcision must be practised. Tiie chief points to be attended to in the performance of this opera-tion, and on which its after success is most dependent, are—1, That toomncii skin be not removed ; 2, That the mucous membrane be slit up base of the glans; 8, That as little as possible of it be removed ; 4, —Instrumentfor holding the Pre-puce in Circumci-sion, 892 DISEASES OF THE PENIS AND SCROTUM. That all bleeding vessels be tied ; 5, That the mucous membrane be wellturned back, so as to cover in the gap left by the retracted skin; 6, Thatthe ligatures be left long; 7, Tiiat as few sutures as possible be
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