Abdominal surgery . o anassistant, whose duty it is with gentleness to keep the openingin the bladder steadily forward in the abdominal opening ; whilehe is also careful to mop up any fluid that may well up whilethe operator has his fingers or instruments inside the bladder. The finger, inserted through the opening, feels for stones,measures their size, and tellshow best they may be their removal; Tait usesspecial scoops and forceps; andthese will be found very con-venient. Small stones arescooped out; large ones are•carefully extracted by this is easy enough ; butif a
Abdominal surgery . o anassistant, whose duty it is with gentleness to keep the openingin the bladder steadily forward in the abdominal opening ; whilehe is also careful to mop up any fluid that may well up whilethe operator has his fingers or instruments inside the bladder. The finger, inserted through the opening, feels for stones,measures their size, and tellshow best they may be their removal; Tait usesspecial scoops and forceps; andthese will be found very con-venient. Small stones arescooped out; large ones are•carefully extracted by this is easy enough ; butif a stone is impacted in theneck of the gall-bladder, andmore particularly if it lies someway down the C3stic duct, ex-traordinary difficulties may bemet with. It must never beforgotten that the walls of thebladder and its ducts arethin, friable, and by nomeans disten-sile; that theymay very easilybe torn through ;and that, if accident hap-pens, the result,as creating a bil-iary fistula open-ing into the peri-.
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