Hospital statistics of stone in the bladder ... in the Royal Infirmary of Aberdeen ... 20th March, 1838 to 20th March, 1843 / [William Keith].

  • Keith, William, 1802 or 1803-1871
Date:
1844]
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Credit: Hospital statistics of stone in the bladder ... in the Royal Infirmary of Aberdeen ... 20th March, 1838 to 20th March, 1843 / [William Keith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table VII.—Showing the comparative prevalence of stone in the bladder in those localities from whence the cases that were operated on came. Total cases operated on in five years,,— —39 From the City of Aberdeen 14 cases. „ County of Aberdeen —— 22 cases, as under—From the Parish of Fyvie, /yi/vWM r. Crathie, „ New Deer. Old Macbar Towie, — Strathdon, Tough, Forgien, Culsalmond, 2 cases. 2 „ 2 „ 2 „ 1 case. 1 1 1 1 55 95 59 5? Parish of Chapel of Garioch, 1 case. „ Rayne, —~— 1 55 55 99 99 95 59 Kintore, Kemnay,, Echt,. New Machaiv New Hills, Ellon, /ww/w St. Fergus, 55 99 95 55 59 55 99 55 22 From the county of Kincardine, 2 cases. Parish of Fetteresso, 1 case. — Nigg, 1 case. 2 And from the town of Montrose 1 case. Total, 39 Thus have I in the preceding tables fully and faithfully recorded my hospital experience in this department of surgery. From the recorded experience of some of our best English surgeons, the aver- age mortality among those of all ages operated on is 1 in 7i, and that from the age of fifty upwards the mortality increases to one in five or more; while, on the continent, lithotomy to those beyond the age of fifty proves still more disastrous. Dupuytren, in giving a table to prove the success of his new or bilateral operation, boasts of an average mortality at all ages of 1 in 4^, and admits that of six operated on above fifty years of age, five died. He affirms else- where that throughout France one dies out of every three operated on beyond fifty years of age, and the assertion is corroborated by Lisfranc, Yelpeau, and several other writers. Well might that emi- nent surgeon, Dupuytren, say: “ There is still great room left to desire a method of performing lithotomy less murderous than any yet in use.” Considerable interest must, therefore, attach to a mode of operating and plan of treatment that has led to such results as the above tables show.