A short treatise on the section of the prostate gland in lithotomy; with an explanation of a safe and easy method of conducting the operation on the principles of Cheselden / By C. Aston Key.

  • Key, C. Aston (Charles Aston), 1793-1849.
Date:
1824
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Credit: A short treatise on the section of the prostate gland in lithotomy; with an explanation of a safe and easy method of conducting the operation on the principles of Cheselden / By C. Aston Key. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. To Cheselden Operative Surgery is indebted for one of the most important improvements, that the whole range of the profession can present. The certainty and safety with which a most painful disease can be relieved, stamps the lateral operation of Lithotomy as a bold and highly rewarded effort of genius,—as a present of inestimable value to suffer- ing humanity,—and as a just cause of triumph to our national feelings as surgeons. It has now undergone the test of nearly a century, and, like all improvements of real value, it has past through its ordeal with increased rather than diminished credit. Connected with a school that gave birth to the present lateral operation, and deeply impressed with the conviction of its superiority over every other mode of operating in this