A short treatise on the section of the prostate gland in lithotomy; with an explanation of a safe and easy method of conducting the operation on the principles of Cheselden / By C. Aston Key.

  • Key, C. Aston (Charles Aston), 1793-1849.
Date:
1824
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Credit: A short treatise on the section of the prostate gland in lithotomy; with an explanation of a safe and easy method of conducting the operation on the principles of Cheselden / By C. Aston Key. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    SHORT TREATISE ON LITHOTOMY. In the performance of surgical operations, it is the paramount duty of the surgeon, a duty rendered doubly indispensable, both as the feelings of humanity and the improvement of the profession are concerned, not to deviate from the rules which have been found efficient in the hands of experienced and dexterous operators; nor to suggest any important change in the mechanism of an operation that can be at variance with principles established on the firm basis of experience. After the records recently laid before the public by two able and successful Lithotomists,* it may appear superfluous, * I allude to Mr. Martineau’s and Mr. Barlow’s papers on Lithotomy. B