The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. 65S.—Tapping tlie Chest by the Fig. 659.—Tapping the Chest hy the Aspirator. TAPPING THE CHEST. 553 stop-cock closed, the chest is tapped in the usual situation witli theaspirator-troehar; and the cock on its side being turned on, the fluidrushes into the exiiausted bottle to fill up the vacuum. The quantitydrawn off is often very great, several pints from tlie adult ; and even inchildren tlie amount of fluid ma} be immense. The original aspirator, as invented by Dieulafoy,
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. 65S.—Tapping tlie Chest by the Fig. 659.—Tapping the Chest hy the Aspirator. TAPPING THE CHEST. 553 stop-cock closed, the chest is tapped in the usual situation witli theaspirator-troehar; and the cock on its side being turned on, the fluidrushes into the exiiausted bottle to fill up the vacuum. The quantitydrawn off is often very great, several pints from tlie adult ; and even inchildren tlie amount of fluid ma} be immense. The original aspirator, as invented by Dieulafoy, slightly modified,also answers the purpose very well. It has the advantage of being con-verted into a syphon, by wliich the force applied can be much morereadil}^ moderated. The forcible expansion of the lung, caused by con-necting the pleura with so large a vacuum as is represented in Fig. G59,might sometimes be accompanied by danger, especially in cases in whichthe pleurisy is the result of injury, with perhaps wound, of the forcible expansion under these circumstances might give rise tohaemorrhage. One sto[)-cock, c, as represente
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