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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    not fated to end here; for,'after Cheselden had improved the operation of Frere Jacques, so that it merited the appellation of the glory of English I surgery, his implements of success were aban- . doned for others infinitely more susceptible of p erroneous management. Hawkins turned the i secondary instrument, the conductor, of Chesel- den into a primary engine in lithotomy, by imparting an edge to one of its blunt sides. In our days the gorget still disputes the pre- I eminence with the more simple and manageable knife of Cheselden, and those which more nearly ! resemble it, as well as with the bistouri cache, brought forward in 1743 by the Frere Cosme. The apparatus, major and minor, being now [abrogated, we have only to occupy ourselves with the cutting instruments employed in the high operation, and in the lateral section. We will 1 consider the gorget and bistouri cache, and then : speak of the other more simple knives. I Did our time and space allow, by collecting ^ all the anathemas which celebrated surgical * writers have pronounced against each other’s : favourite form of gorget, whilst vaunting their ■ own hobby, we might be saved the trouble of proving the many defects to which this much- ' favoured instrument is liable. From the time