Appendix to a Proposal for a new manner of cutting for the stone / [John Thomson].

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846
Date:
1810
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Appendix to a Proposal for a new manner of cutting for the stone / [John Thomson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to disapprove of the manner in which you con¬ ducted yourself in any part of the operation, which you performed on Robert Walker, on the 5th of July 1808 : On the contrary, all the steps of the operation seemed to me to be executed with perfect precision and coolness. The incision into the bladder was accomplished with promptness and facility; and, in my opinion, you are entitled to no small credit for your judgment and humanity, in hav¬ ing, in the circumstances which you h^ive so fully detailed in your history of the case, put the patient to bed, and delayed for some days the further search for the stone. To this judicious practice, as well as to the caution which you seemed to ob¬ serve, in the use of those instruments which it was necessary to introduce into the bladder, I cannot help thinking that the patient’s complete recovery is in a great measure to be attributed. Under these circumstances, I do not think that Robert Walker could have any possible cause to re¬ gret his having fallen that day into your hands. I am, MY DEAR SIR, Yours most sincerely, WILLIAM NEWBIGGING. South St. David's Street^ nth July^ 1810. c 21