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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    to the individual who has invented, or reduced to practice, a method offering the prospect of relieving from their suf- ferings a great majority of calculous patients, without the necessary consequence of much pain and long confinement; and which has hitherto been unattended with any danger whatsoever. Nor must we neglect to express our great obligation to the philanthropist who, with unexampled zeal, has endeavoured to introduce this great surgical improve- ment into his native country. Already, at his instigation, and from the detail of the success of this operation, witnessed frequently by himself in Paris, several of the most distinguished surgeons of this country, are making active preparations to give it a fair trial. Among the names we might cite of surgeons on this side of the Atlantic, who have eagerly embraced this method, it will be sufficient to notice that of Dr. Physick, in order to show with what degree of confidence it should be estimated. Those who are acquainted with the cau- tion with which this eminent man adopts new plans,—of his attention in never risking the life of a fellow being by the performance of operations, or the use of instruments, of the utility and propriety of which he is not perfectly sensible, will naturally conclude that the new method must offer advantages far superior to those presented by any of the ordinary modes of extracting or destroying the stone. It is confidently expected, that before many weeks have elapsed, this great surgeon will put Mr. Civiale's method to the test; that by Dr. Parrish it will be resorted to in the case of a calculous patient, expected soon in the Pennsyl- vania Hospital; and that my ingenious and valued friend, Dr. Stevens of New York, is making preparations to per- form it in that city. One of the advantages that must certainly result from 'he introduction into general use of this method, will be the future prevention of large stones, and consequently the