On the comparative advantages of lithotomy and lithotrity : and on the circumstances under which one method should be preferred to the other / being the dissertation for which the Jacksonian Prize for 1838 was awarded to Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
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[1842]
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Credit: On the comparative advantages of lithotomy and lithotrity : and on the circumstances under which one method should be preferred to the other / being the dissertation for which the Jacksonian Prize for 1838 was awarded to Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the patient should be restricted to repose, a bland diet, and the use of mucilaginous drinks, and tepid baths, as should also be the case whenever there is reason to apprehend the supervention of any of the preceding accidents. Thus we see, that while in some cases lithotrity will relieve a patient from his disease in one, two, or three sittings, with but lit¬ tle pain or interruption of his ordinary avocations, yet that in others, this operation, even though it may terminate successfully, is attended with considerable pain, requires many sittings before the stone is got rid of, obliges the patient to confine himself to his room, or to bed during the treatment, and is liable to induce one or more of the accidents which I have enumerated. As, however, lithotrity is every year making greater progress towards perfection, we may reasonably indulge the hope that the sphere of its appli¬ cation will become more extended ; and that, as the cases to which it is adapted come to be better discriminated, the accidents to which it exposes will be proportionately diminished. Having in the preceding remarks touched upon some points of practical interest connected with lithotomy and lithotrity, and having briefly noticed the advantages and inconveniences of the different methods of performing these operations, I next proceed to the inquiry as to the cases in which the one or other operation is most applicable. (To he continued.) PRINTED B\ JOHN STARK, OLD ASSEMBLY CLOSE, EDINBURGH.