[6] Deschamps—page 106.
[7] Page 107.
[8] Cheselden’s Anatomy—page 330.
[9] Bell’s Surgery—page 173.
[10] Sharp’s Surgery.
[11] The late Mr. Dease was so impressed with the hazard of passing a cutting instrument along the curve of the staff, that he used to withdraw the staff, after he had opened the urethra, and passing a director through the opening into the bladder, dilated the cervix vesicæ, by introducing the Gorget in the usual manner.
[12] Mr. Martineau’s Gorget is merely used as a director to convey the forceps into the bladder; its edges are blunt, and therefore it does not aid in the division of the prostate, which has been already divided by the knife, as a reference to his operation will shew. He had the kindness to send me a model of his Gorget, for which, and his politeness in his communication to me on the subject, I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks.
[13] I should not omit to mention that I did not adopt this alteration in the instruments, without having first operated at the hospital, both with the Cutting-Gorget, and also with the beaked knife, in conjunction with the common staff. I was not led to lay them aside by the issue of the cases, as they were successful; but the difficulty and hazard attending their introduction, together with the general unsuccessful issue of Gorget operations, compared with Cheselden’s method, induced me to use a more simple form of instruments.