On the removal of stone from the bladder, without the use of cutting instruments ... : together with a description and plates of the instruments invented by Dr. Civiale and others, and details as to the mode of using them / by H.G. Belinaye.

Date:
1825
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Credit: On the removal of stone from the bladder, without the use of cutting instruments ... : together with a description and plates of the instruments invented by Dr. Civiale and others, and details as to the mode of using them / by H.G. Belinaye. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    I 112 ! sider objectionable in Mr. Weiss’s instrument, is ' the teeth with which it is provided internally, as \ also the hooked termination of the instrument. | In the place also of the present centre piece, I | think a saw, like one of Mr. Civiale’s, might be | advantageously used. The latter could be easily ! effected, and the former inconvenience may be j as easily remedied. Taking it, however, as it is, 1 1 think it is a most serviceable contrivance, and i should the inventor even improve upon it, its li present form should also be retained, as most i useful in particular cases. 1 think the forms I of the lithontriptor and of its collateral assistants, i cannot be too much multiplied, if we wish to ; extend as far as it is indeed susceptible, the range i of its applicability and use; and 1 shall dake care to place amongst my instruments all the forms known. It is for the reason just men- tioned, that I really rejoice at the existence of another lithontriptor, invented by Mr. Weiss, and which, in so far as that it is curved, and has an entirely new mechanism, is a conception superior to the former. 'We must trouble the reader once more to have recourse to the plate, and to the description annexed to it. It is a curved instrument, and therefore is easily intio duced into the bladder; when there, it opens