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
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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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    fervices to furgeons and mankind. — After pradifing the high operation for the ftone for feveral years, and with various fuccefs, he at length relinquifhed it, in confequence of an accident from an over-diftenfion of the bladder by injedion ; from the peritoneum being cut through or burft ; and on account of the general well-founded objection, that the urine lying conftantly on the wound, retarded its healing but even in this method of ope¬ rating, which was given up as lefs iuccefs- ful than the lateral way, at prelent univer- fally eftablifhed, he declared (and the world did him the juftice to believe him) that he loft but one in feven. —• His delicacy in de¬ clining to mention the fuccefs of his private pradice, becaufe he could not fufficiently witnefs it, is a condud that has been often commended, and feldom imitated. The patients he publicly cut for the ftone, in St. Thomas’s Hofpital, were two hundred and thirteen ; their different ages, and the number that died, I (hall endeavour to ar¬ range. Number
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