Observations on lithotomy, and on the formation of urinary calculi / by John Charles Litchfield.

  • Litchfield, John Charles.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on lithotomy, and on the formation of urinary calculi / by John Charles Litchfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The operation for the stone has always been regarded as one of the most formidable and serious that the surgeon has to perform, and more has been written on it, and greater pains taken to bring it to perfection, than have been bestowed upon any other operation of surgery. And this labour happily has not been in vain ; for it must be allowed that the safety and suc- cess attending the operation of the present day is great in comparison with that which attended the practice of the older surgeons. We seldom now hear of the internal pudic artery being wounded, and never of those