Observations on lithotomy : being a republication of Dr. James Douglas' appendix to his History of the lateral operation for the stone, and of the other original papers relative to Mr. Cheselden's invention and improvement of that operation / to which is added, a proposal for a new manner of cutting for the stone, by John Thomson, M.D.

  • Douglas, James, 1675-1742.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Observations on lithotomy : being a republication of Dr. James Douglas' appendix to his History of the lateral operation for the stone, and of the other original papers relative to Mr. Cheselden's invention and improvement of that operation / to which is added, a proposal for a new manner of cutting for the stone, by John Thomson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    TO THE STUDENTS OF SURGERY, IN EDINBURGH. GENTLEMEN, I HAVE been induced to become the Editor of Dr. James Douglas' ac- count of Mr. Cheselden-s improved Method of Operating for the Stone, from a belief that Mr. Cheselden's operation, at one time so justly regarded as the pride of English surgery, is now but very imperfectly known. I have met with but few surgeons who had ever seen the original description of this operation; and of those who have attempted to give an account of it in their writings, some describe an operation which Mr. Cheselden had himself abandoned, while b