The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 429
g against the diaphragm; it extended below the umbilicus and pressed upon the left lateral walls of the abdomen. It is hard, cuts crisply, and has the characteristic appearance of that organ in those addicted to the use of alcohol. There are several tumours along the inferior edge, of a syphilitic… … Pigs. 1 and 2 show Duchenne's trocar. It is introduced closed (Fig. 2), then opened (Fig. 1), by drawing back with the thumb the lower button seen on the handle, and then closed again, thus grasping a small portion of the tumour or muscle in its cavity. On withdrawing it, the portion removed may be…
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