Report of twenty-five cases of urinary calculus, in twenty-three of which the bi-lateral operation was performed / by Paul F. Eve.

  • Eve, Paul F.
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[1852]
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Credit: Report of twenty-five cases of urinary calculus, in twenty-three of which the bi-lateral operation was performed / by Paul F. Eve. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Art. III.—Report of Twenty-five Cases of Urinary Calculus, in Twenty- three of which the Bi-lateral Operation was Performed. By Paul F. Eve, M. D., Professor of Surgery in the Nashville University, Tennessee. Among the committees appointed at the last meeting of the American Medical Association, was one to collect the statistics of the operation for the removal of stone in the bladder. In October, 1841, I first performed lithot¬ omy ; since then, a period of eleven and a half years, I have operated upon twenty-four cases of urinary calculus; nine of them within twelve months, four in Georgia and five in Tennessee. No one will doubt the importance of carefully prepared surgical statistics, and to make mine the more full and authentic, the valuable assistance of Prof. Means and Dr. Barry in the che¬ mical analysis, and of Dr. Juriah Harris with the microscope, has been invoked in the examination of my collection of vesical stones, amounting to about one hundred and forty. In the analytical investigation all proposed was simply the qualitative and not the quantitative composition of these foreign bodies. The cases are now narrated in the order of their occurrence. Case I.—A mulatto boy, eight years old, coming from Lincoln County, Georgia, has had symptoms of stone for some indefinite period. The bi-lateral operation was performed on him in October, 1841, after the method of Dupuytren, with the double lithotome cache. A mulberry calculus, weighing two drachms, was extracted. This fs the handsomest specimen of the oxalate of lime formation in my collection. The mulberry-like granulations are small, distinct, and perfect. The wound healed so kindly that on the fourth day after the operation, the patient was considered well; in fact, was out of liis room.