An inquiry into the average mortality in lithotomy cases : with a few remarks on the operation of lithotrity / by Alexander Miller.

  • Miller, Alexander, 1808?-1846.
Date:
1831
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Credit: An inquiry into the average mortality in lithotomy cases : with a few remarks on the operation of lithotrity / by Alexander Miller. 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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    making any one surgeon appear the greatest litli tomist of his age, but solely for the purpose presenting the world with an authentic stal ment of the success that has attended the operatic in that hospital since its foundation. From th report we learn, that three hundred and fifty-fo patients have been operated upon, of who seventy-nine have died, making an average of o in four and a half. In the same paper, we find letter from Mr Barnes, of the Devon Hospital, which is given a table, to shew the average pi portion of stone cases cured, to the whole patieri admitted into the hospital; we are, moreov*! told, that the latter part of this return, namei for the last seven years, may be considered qu correct—an admission that the first part is not be depended on, that nine patients have be admitted, and all dismissed cured. Any one, trust, who reads this statement carefully, v» agree with me, that all farther notice of it unnecessary. We do not wish to know lu many cases of lithotomy passed through the harlj of this or that surgeon ; but, in the pursuit ol surgical question of great importance, we des;| to know, how many were admitted into tit Devon Hospital, and how many Mr Barnes 4 not cure.