Clinical lectures on diseases of the urinary organs : delivered at University College Hospital / by Sir Henry Thompson.

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Clinical lectures on diseases of the urinary organs : delivered at University College Hospital / by Sir Henry Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fore somewliat hazardous for large stones, I now come to the mode of performing- while it is quite unnecessary for small the lateral operation; that method which ones. after all, is most trusted and mos? Fig. 54.—Bones and lij^aments of the pelvis ia the position for lithotomy. practised by the surgeons of Europe and I many details, let us try to revert to first America at the present day. As 1 have principles, and define clearly the object ^id before, when we have to do with | we aim at. Fig, 55.—Dissection, showing the bulb. I told you that the object] of lithotrity is to remove the stone without injury to the patient, either from the stone or the instrument. In lithotomy you must have a wound, and the object is to make it so that it shall least endanger the blood-