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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    stone should have been invented, infinitely more ■ fatal, absurd, and complicated, than its first pro-, totype. The Celsian method, the first we have* on record, was succeeded, in 1520, by Romanis the Cremonan physician^s apparatus major, ini which the number of instruments was increased,, and in which also the operation of dilating and 1 tearing the bladder was added to the former in-- cision. These operations are, fortunately, in our- days exploded ; but the fate of the art has con- • tinned throughout the same. In 1561, Peter Franco gave the better sug-■ gestion of the high operation of the stone; and I after him, another surgeon of eminence more zealously urged its adoption. Still in England it was never employed till the beginning of the eighteenth century, when Douglas performed it. The absurd apparatus major continued to preserve a paramount superiority to the former, until, and even some time after, the year 1697, when Frere Jacques appeared in the French capital, and first showed the rude example of the present improved lateral operation. Foubert, at a more recent pe- riod, preserved in his own plan, which had also its vogue, one of the worst parts of the old mode of operating, namely, the forcible dilation of the bladder. The capricious folly of lithotoinists was