A case of vaginal lithotomy : with remarks on stone in the female as it occurs at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital ... [and 3 other papers] / by Charles Williams.

  • Williams, Charles, 1827-1907.
Date:
1886
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Credit: A case of vaginal lithotomy : with remarks on stone in the female as it occurs at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital ... [and 3 other papers] / by Charles Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE OF LITHOTOMY, In 'which an Enlarged Middle Lobe of the Prostate Gland was accidentally Removed. The specimen which I have the pleasure to exhibit to you* represents an enlarged middle lobe of the prostate gland, accidentally removed from a gentlemen on whom I per- formed the operation of lithotomy. The patient was a tall thin man, aged 72, living about ten miles from Norwich. He had had symptoms of stone in the bladder for upwards of twelve months. A few months before I visited him, he had passed, on one or two occasions, a large quantity of blood in his urine. Of late, he had suffered much from the presence of the stone. He had been greatly disturbed during the night, and had become low-spirited. His urine was found to be quite healthy and free from albumen. His feet were in nowise cedematous; and he could eat freely. There was a loud systolic bruit heard over an extended area of the chest, giving rise to no inconvenience. Five years previously, he fractured the neck of his right thigh-bone; ankylosis of the hip-joint resulted from the injury, and he now walks with a perfectly straight and stiff, but shortened, limb. On July 6th, 1876, with the assistance of Messrs. Morton, surgeons, of Aylsham (under whose care this patient had been), I performed the usual lateral operation, and removed * Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society.