Stanley's case of patent urachus : with observations on urachal cysts / by Alban Doran.

  • Doran, Alban H. G. (Alban Henry Griffiths), 1849-1927
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[1898]
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    [Reprinted from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports, Vol. XXXIV.] /y- STANLEY’S C U|\ EA-TE N T UR AC HUS, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON URACHAL CYSTS. BY ALBAN DORAN, F.R.C.S. When preparing—a year since—a memoir based upon a case in my own operative practice,1 I was struck by a certain resem- blance between Specimen 2419 in the Pathological Collection in the Museum attached to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and a report of a case under the late Mr. Stanley’s care, published by him in the third volume of the Transactions of the Patho- logical Society of ^London. There is no mention either of that report, or even of the bare name of Stanley, in the note on No. 2419 in the Museum Catalogue, but that valuable publication, on the other hand, names Savory as the describer of the speci- men, and refers us to the second volume of the first part of the Transactions of the Abernethian Society; yet in those now venerable archives I find no note either of Mr. Stanley or of his report. After a troublesome search amidst original documents, in which labour I was greatly assisted by Dr. Morley Fletcher, I have come to the conclusion that the two cases are identical. As the subject specially concerns St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and is interesting in itself, I think that a copy of the aforesaid documents ought to find a place in the Reports, so as to save trouble to those who may work in future at diseases of the urachus. Otherwise the copies of the documents in my posses- sion would remain forgotten in my note-books. This statement requires a little further explanation. The contribution which I prepared for the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society was not. a treatise on diseases of the urachus, but a clinical paper on true urachal cysts. I briefly sketched, however, allied affec- 1 A. Case of Cyst of the Urachus, with notes on Urachal and so-called “Allantoic Cysts” (Medico-Chir. Trans., vol. lxxxi. 1898). This paper includes numerous references. VOL. XXXIV. C