On the relation of psychology to physiology : a review.

Date:
1859
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    FIRST EXPERIMENTS. smiths were laid under contribution, and soon such rude instruments were made as were suggested by the peculiar wants of individual cases. This occu- pied a period from the 9th of December, 1845, to the 10th of January, 1846, when the first operation was performed. Several medical friends, amongst whom were Drs. Boling, Holt, Ames, Baldwin, Jones, McWhor- ter and Henry, were invited to the inauguration of the experimental series. When the mechanical contrivances were exhibited, the peculiarities of each case pointed out, and the principles of the operation explained, they thought my plan of pro- cedure promised well, while some were but little less enthusiastic than myself in hopes for the future. The first was a very simple case, and one that any tyro in surgery could now cure in a week's time. The fistula was an inch and a quarter long, ^-^^ \ transverse, in the base of —_______^— the bladder, with an abun- dance of tissue. Its edges were accurately adjusted, and I expected to efiect at once a magical cure ; but greatly to my surprise and mortification it was a failure. However, the size of the opening was reduced from that seen in the diagram to one not larger than a No. 4 bougie: this encouraged me considerably, and the same operation was tried on