Case of removal of stone from the bladder by the new operation of lithectasy or cystectasy, with remarks / by Thomas Elliot.

  • Elliot Thomas, 1817-1859.
Date:
[1843?]
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Credit: Case of removal of stone from the bladder by the new operation of lithectasy or cystectasy, with remarks / by Thomas Elliot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE OF REMOVAL OF STONE FROM THE BLADDER BY THE NEW OPERATION OF L1THECTASY OR CYSTECTASY, WITH REMARKS. By THOMAS ELLIOT, M. R. C.S. L., Carlisle. (From the Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal, No. 1540 The following case possesses some interest, from the circum- stance of its being, so far as I am aware, the first on record of the adoption of the plan so ably advocated by Dr Willis of London* in a recent publication,* and said to have been originally propos- ed by Mr John Douglas, and shortly afterwards (in 1819) sug- gested to the late Sir Astley Cooper by the Drs Arnott. The successful removal of a calculus of considerable size on that occasion by Sir Astley, in the mode recommended by the Drs Arnott, who attended the case with him, could scarcely be regard- ed as a fair test of the merits of this operation, inasmuch as the patient had, nine months previously, undergone the operation of lithotomy, and a possibility existed of the cicatrix of the prostate having been torn open, if, indeed, that gland had ever entirely healed,—a fact more than doubtful, from the presence of a recto- urethral fistula, that had remained from the first operation, and might possibly traverse a portion of the gland. * On the Treatment of Stone in the Bladder by Medical and Mechanical means. By R. Willis, M. D., of the ltoyal College of Physicians, Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Children, &c.