Practical observations on the lateral operation of lithotomy, and on various improved and new modes of performing this operation : together with remarks on the recto vesical operation / by Robert Muter.

  • Muter, Robert.
Date:
1824
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    u Some of the minor improvements whicli I am about to suggest, will appear, perhaps, to be of but little consequence. In this difficult and hazardous operation, where the patient's existence is, as it were, weighed in a balance, and life and death are suspended in awful equipoise, there is nothing little which can tend to preserve it. In difficult cases, therefore, even these minutiae may not be found altogether superfluous. But so long as the surgeon shall continue to use the common staff as a directory in forming the internal incision, so long must he pro- ceed with the greatest caution, to prevent his doing mischief Besides, the operation of lithotomy is no longer confined to the eminent surgeons of hospitals and great cities ; it is also practised by many others. To these, especially, whatever enables them to operate safely, becomes doubly valuable. Could I prevail upon surgeons to lay aside not only the gorget, as really unnecessary,