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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![E ‘Number of patients cut. 105 „ ~ 6 2 from 1 2- 10 -- 10- 7- 5 2 —— 213 41 ] Years old each. 10 10 to 20 20 to 30 30 to 40 40 to 50 50 to 60 60 to 70 70 to 80 20 died. 3 — 4 — 3 — 4 — 1 The proportion of twenty out of fuch a number, cannot be thought great or alarming. Mr. Chefelden obferves, that feveral had the fmall-pox during their cure, fome of whom died. One of the firft hundred and five had a violent whooping cough, which carried him off. In this cafe, the urgency of the (lone fymptoms, moft likely rendered the opera¬ tion immediately neceffary ; otherwife, waiting until the incidental difeafe was better, would have been advifeable. . 1 c So that from the general opinion of fur- 0 geons, from Mr. Chefelden’s account, from what has been imparted to me on the bed authority, and from what has fallen under my own obfervation, during my attendance at hofpitals ; — we cannot affert with truth, that more](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30365028_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
