Lithotomy and lithotrity : with examples / by George Buchanan.

  • Buchanan, George, 1827-1906.
Date:
[1882]
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Credit: Lithotomy and lithotrity : with examples / by George Buchanan. 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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    Reprinted from the “ Glasgow Medical Journal” for January, 1882.] LITHOTOMY AND LITHOTRITY, WITH EXAMPLES.* By GEORGE BUCHANAN, Professor of Clinical Surgery iu the University of Glasgow. In showing a number of calculi recentty removed from the bladder, Prof. Buchanan made some clinical remarks on the cases which had been under his care since the publication of his paper on the subject, in June 1880. The number of cases of calculus he had seen since the above date was nine, more than be had had for four years previously, an illustration oi how such cases, like others, come in runs. I he fiist three calculi shown were all successfully removed by lithotomy, with the rectangular staff, the only peculiarity being in connection with one, a mulberry the size of a small walnut, taken from a pupil teacher aged 19, and which had caused so much agony that the only position in which he had any ease was sitting cross-legged like a Turk, in which posture he slept at night. The next case mentioned was that of Mr. Iv., ret. 73, who was brought by his medical attendant from the country to consult 1 rof. Buchanan, in his own house. A stone was at ‘once detected, and a day the following week armoint.pd fnr