Volume 2

Principles of lithotrity; or a treatise on the art of extracting the stone without incision / By Baron Heurteloup.

  • Charles Louis Stanislas Heurteloup
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Principles of lithotrity; or a treatise on the art of extracting the stone without incision / By Baron Heurteloup. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    With such an alternative, the patient was unable to decide till the severity of his sufferings over- came his irresolution, and then as a last resource he placed himself under the care of the lithoto- mist. What was the consequence of this delay ? The bladder became diseased, and sometimes disorganized, the stone increased in size, and the constitution became seriously affected, thus ren- dering the success of the operation still more un- certain than it would have been, had the patient - submitted to it soon after the first formation of the stone. The invention of a milder method, and one which did not require the gloomy apparatus of lithotomy, and above all, which was exempt from its fearful risks, ought then to remedy so grievous a condition. 3 , Lithotrity, or the pulverization of calculi in the bladder, was the means by which this desirable change in the treatment of calculous patients was to be accomplished: it consisted, in fact, of in- struments so constructed as to be introduced into the bladder, through the urethra, and to reduce the stones formed in this organ into powder, or _ fragments sufficiently small to be expelled through the natural passage. ‘These means, by which nu- merous cures have been already obtained, will, when generally known, studied and adopted, have the most desirable and happy results for human nature, in saving it, with very few exceptions,
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