A report of the trial of Cooper v. Wakley, for an alleged libel, taken by shorthand writers employed expressly for the occasion : with an engraving of the instruments, and the position of the patient / together with B. Cooper's "Prefatory remarks" on the evidence, and a copious explanatory appendix, by Thomas Wakley.

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1829
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Credit: A report of the trial of Cooper v. Wakley, for an alleged libel, taken by shorthand writers employed expressly for the occasion : with an engraving of the instruments, and the position of the patient / together with B. Cooper's "Prefatory remarks" on the evidence, and a copious explanatory appendix, by Thomas Wakley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    correct and I am now coming to jiarliciilars—do you not say that the meaning of tiiis is 'that tlic forceps were not pushed into the hiadder, but to somewhere else ; ihiit is' that that is the object of the report? You hafl better let me look Mtit. VVel'l there it is. [ Tlie Lancet, vontuinitig the statement, was now handed to the witness.] This representation here, immediately following someto/icrp, appears to me to refer to the first attempt to get the forceps in. Well then, Sir, go on : The forceps were again used, but as unsuccessfully as before :' We are agreed the first did not go in at all:— were again used, but as unsuccessfully as before; ihey were pushed onwards to a considerable distance, and with no small degree of force ? If I am not prepared to swear to the trufh of that, I am not prepared to contradict it. 'i'hen you do not recollect it? No; I cannot swear to it, either one way or the other. You did not take particular notice of it? No. Pray, to whom did you make a communication of your opinion of this operation, because, though you did not do it to Mr. Wakley, or his attorney, you must have done it to somebody? What! spoke of the operation, Sir ? Yes? Why as a natural consequence I could not help it. I asked to whom ? I could not say to whom : several iriedical friends, at Col- chester Hospital: there are two ; I told them both of it, I dare say. Re-examined by Mr. Wukky, The staff was introduced through the in-ethra after the incision had been made? Certainly. Certainly? Certainly. Lord Tcnterden. A second time? Certainly, my Lord. You saw it introduced.? I saw it introduced more than once, or twice. Mr. Wakley. Have you ever lost a patient in the operation of lithotomy ? No, I have not. If an opening, sufficiently large to admit the forceps to enter the bladder the first time, had been made, would a second incision have been necessary? Why, no. No? No. Have you ever seen me before to-dayNever, that I am aware of. Mr, John Clapham sworn'. Examined by Mr. Wakley. Where do you reside, Mr. Clapham ? At Thornlej', near Peterborough, Are you in practice ? I am in practice with my father. Lord Tentcrden. In practice as a surgeon ? Not as a surgeon, exactly, niy Lord Mr. Wakley. You are a licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company, are you ? I am Have you studied surgery in one of the London hospitals ? I have. Lord Tenterden. In what ? Mr. Wakley. In which hospital ? St. George's, Sir, During how long a period ? Two winters, ^ Lord Tenterden. Two courses of lectures. Mr. Wakley. Did you witness the operation of lithotomy performed at Guy'' Hospital by Mr. Bransby Cooper? I did. Is the report in The Lancet, as far as you recollect, correct? It is. Did the patient appear a healthy man ? He did, A favourable subject for the operation ? Ye Lord Tenterden. You see you are putting course I can take, is not to take the answer. Mr. Wakley. Was he a favourable subject for the operation ? He appeared so. What fluid escaped on the withdrawal of the knife the first time? Uut a small quantity. What fluid was it? I cannot say what fluid it was—there was a siTiall auantitv Sit James Scarlett. Speak up. ^ ''' Witness. There was a small quantity of fluid. es. you are putting a leading question; now the onlv