A treatise on the formation, constituents, and extraction of the urinary calculus. Being the essay for which the Jacksonian prize for the year 1833 was awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons in London / by John Green Crosse.

  • Cross, John, 1790-1850.
Date:
1841
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Credit: A treatise on the formation, constituents, and extraction of the urinary calculus. Being the essay for which the Jacksonian prize for the year 1833 was awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons in London / by John Green Crosse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The text of the following* Treatise is the Prize-Essay as presented to the Royal College of Surgeons of London, with only a very few verbal alterations and corrections; the notes to each chapter have been added since the work has been in the printer’s hands. Accustomed to describe every operation for stone that I have either witnessed or performed, I have selected from my case-book a few examples, which constitute the first Appendix. The second Appendix, based chiefly upon public documents, needs no explanation ; the third had its origin in some memoranda drawn out many years ago for a systematic course of reading, and has become so much more extensive than I contemplated, that I now regard it better suited to the German bibliographer than to the practical English sur- geon ; a catalogue is, however, the briefest record of facts, and thus far the lengthened Appendix supports the rest of the Treatise, into which I have avoided the introduction of theoretical speculations, regarding them as fleeting fashions of the day, that vanish before the constant and steady improvements in our useful science. J. G C. Norwich, 31.stf January, 1835.