Lithotomia Douglassiana: or, a new method of cutting for the stone / first practised by John Douglas ... to which is added what has been written by ... Rossetus and ... Pietreus on the same subject.

  • Douglas, John, approximately 1680-1743
Date:
1723
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Lithotomia Douglassiana: or, a new method of cutting for the stone / first practised by John Douglas ... to which is added what has been written by ... Rossetus and ... Pietreus on the same subject. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CO INTRODUCTION. T is univerfally allowed, that amongft all the Difeafes with which Mankind are afflided, there is none more terrible than the Stone in the Bladder $ and amongft all the Chirur- gical Operations now in Ufe, there are none fo painful, dangerous, and uncertain, as the common Operations which are made in order to cure it. Therefore any Im¬ provement of this moft dangerous, though common Operation, cannot but be gratefully received by all thofe who have the Misfortune to be troubled with this B cruel