A short enquiry into the merit of solvents : so far as it may be necessary to compare them with the operation of lithotomy / by Jere Whitaker Newman.
- Jeremiah Newman
- Date:
- 1781
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A short enquiry into the merit of solvents : so far as it may be necessary to compare them with the operation of lithotomy / by Jere Whitaker Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![t *6 ] CHAPTER THE SECOND *• Some Caufes that hurt Lithotomy confidered.— Delay .—Long Courfes of Solvents.—A Cafe. ~Mr. Garrick mentioned.—A few Reafons againft the Efficacy of Preparations fuppofed to a£i on the Stone.—Prejudice and falfe Reafon- ing have been oppofed to the Operation.— The Lerm Anceps mifapplied. J Have endeavoured to Ihew, that furgeons have not that predilection for operations, fo generally charged on them , as they were ready to forward the fuccefs of a prepara¬ tion, which it was fuppofed would render li¬ thotomy unneceffarv. It has likewife appeared, that this remedy did not diffolve the Hone ^ which renders it more than probable, that all medicines on the fame principle will be equally ineffectual. I fhall next venture to fpeak of fome of the caufes, which have co-operated in rendering lithotomy lefs fuccefsful than it would other- wife have been ; fome of them being equally applicable to any other difeafe requiring ma nual operation, does not appear to me any juff objection to my mentioning them in this place, ' Thef](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30365028_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
