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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    COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES OF LITHOTOMY AND TTTHOTRITY. V, Of the circumstances under which Lithotomy on Lithotrity shouud be preferred. At an earlier period of the history of lithotrity, the opinion was very generally entertained, that from the difficulties which attend- ed this operation, and the length of time required to be devoted to its study, its performance must be restricted to special opera- tors, as was once the case with respect to lithotomy ; and though this’opinion has fortunately been disproved by lithotrity having become so far simplified as to render it practicable by the genera- lity of surgeons, like any other operation, many still consider that it should be limited to a few particular cases, and that lithoto- my must continue to be most suitable to by far the greater num- ber *, the latter operation being the rule applicable to all cases, and the former the exception. The preference to be accorded to one or other of these operations has been repeatedly made the subject of discussion in medical journals and societies ; and in the debates of the Academie de Medecine, about five years ago, may be seen the opinions (which some have since seen reason to alter) of the most eminent French surgeons ; though it is to be regretted that these discussions were not always conducted with tliat tree. dom from prejudice, and absence of party feeling which should