Report made to the Institute of France, on the 22d of March, 1824 / by Baron Percy and Chev. Chaussier on a memoir presented by M. Civiale, M.D., of the faculty of Paris, entitled A new method of destroying the stone in the bladder without the operation of lithotomy ; translated from the French by R. La Roche.

  • Percy, Pierre-François, baron, 1754-1825.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Report made to the Institute of France, on the 22d of March, 1824 / by Baron Percy and Chev. Chaussier on a memoir presented by M. Civiale, M.D., of the faculty of Paris, entitled A new method of destroying the stone in the bladder without the operation of lithotomy ; translated from the French by R. La Roche. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and fellow students, without confiding in each ■ether, entertained the same thought in the same way that Mr. Civiale could make the same dis- covery as the physician of Saltzburgh, without having heard of him or of that gazette; and that having started from the same point, and followed the same rout, Mr. Civiale could have arrived first. Consequently it was with the straight sound that it was necessary to commence; and our phy- sician soon acquired the habit of using it with as much facility and dexterity as the common curved catheter. There was no other way than that for intro- ducing the other instruments to the stone, or al- lowing them the necessary movements. But what are the other instruments ? One is requisite to seize the stone completely, and allow it to escape only at the will of the operator. We cannot say, in respect to this instrument, that it is truly bf Mr. Civiale's anvention; since we find models of it among the ball extractors described and engraved in Bartholomy Maggi, and Andre de la Croix; since it is met with in Franco's work, who has called it his vesical quadruple ; and since Mr. Deschamps has had it engraved in one of the plates of his work. But if he has not altogether invented it, which he would not have found much difficulty in accomplishing, it can with propriety be asserted, that he has succeeded in giving it its most appro- priate application. It is likewise a sound; but one 4