The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 128
124 Bigelott, Litliotrity by a Single Operation. [Jan. of a lithotrite, allows fragments to lie too far from the opening in the tube. The best orifice is at the side of the extremity, and is made by bending the tube at a sharp right angle, carefully rounding the elbow, and then Fig. 2. … Evacuating Tubes, with unguifjrm extremity, a. Strai ;ht tube. b. Curved tube. The clotted lines show the inside floor. The tubes are here of a diameter 31 Charriere. cutting off the bent branch close to the straight tube. (Fig. 2 «.) The tube is then practically straight ; while its orifice, which…
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