Median lithotomy / by Thomas M. Markoe.

  • Markoe, Thomas M. (Thomas Masters), 1819-1901.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Median lithotomy / by Thomas M. Markoe. 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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    NEW YORK MEDICAL JOURNAL: A MONTHLY RECORD OF ■***4- MEDICINE AND THE COLLATERAL SCIENCES. , a April, 1867. [No. I. , , I31 ©rtgtnal (Eommuntcations. r Art. I.—Median Lithotomy.—By Thomas M. Markoe, M.D., Surgeon to the New York Hospital, Adjunct Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, &c. Vol. V.J The recognized dangers of lithotomy have, from the earliest times, led surgeons to seek, by various modifi- cations of the operative procedure, to obviate these dangers, and to diminish the fatality of the operation itself. One of these modifications, which early sug- gested itself, was to avoid altogether any incision of the bladder, and entering the urethra alone with the knife, to prepare a passage for the exit of the stone, by dilat- ing the parts between the external incision and the cavity of the bladder. The old Marian operation was founded upon this idea. It consisted of an incision in the perineum, not always in the median line, which en- Vol. V., No. I.