Recent advances in the methods of extracting stone from the bladder / by Sir Henry Thompson.

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, bart., 1820-1904.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Recent advances in the methods of extracting stone from the bladder / by Sir Henry Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Eecent Advances in the Methods op Exthacting Stone FROM THE Bladder. Peivate.—For use at the sitting of the Surgical Section of the International Medical Congress, London, August 1881. BECENT ADVANCES IN THE METHODS OF EXTRACTING STONE FROM THE BLADDERj, BY Sir HENEY THOMPSON, F.E.C.S. &c. SOTOKON EXTRAORDINARY TO H.M. THE KING OP THE BELGIANS : CONSULTING SDIiGEON TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL : EMERITUS CLINIOAL PROFESSOR OF SURGERY TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, &C. &C. IT will be taken for granted at tbe outset, that the subject defined in the foregoing title is intended to include any improvement in operating either by Litho- tomy or by Lithotrity. And first, I think it may be aflSrmed that, of the two methods named. Lithotomy does not afford so much scope for the consideration of improvements as the opera- tion by crushing. Dominated as lithotomy must be, for the most part, by anatomical conditions which do not change, and perfected as it has been by the experience of centuries, the slight modifications of procedure occasion- A