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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    side of the Channel, he thinks the present work,, in which an account and delineations of thelithon-- triptor are undertaken, will not prove unaccept-- able to the members of his profession, nor to* those amongst their patients who prefer enduring; the torments of a calculous disease to submitting: to a painful operation. For the convenience off those surgeons who wish to turn their attention i to the subject, he has encircled within this dimi- • nutive volume an account of most of the means i that have been brought forward to avoid the em- ployment of cutting instruments, in treating stone: in the bladder. No one, he thinks, can fail to feel satisfaction in recurring to the important masterly suggestions of Mr. James Arnott, and in observing the useful and ingenious devices, by means of which that excellent mechanist Mr. Weiss has substantiated the conceptions of cele- brated surgeons. All these new methods of re- lieving a most cruel disease, form together a most ■ imposing body of new acquirements, and an accession most important to the art of surgery. Should the reader fortunately concur in this opi-