Litholapaxy, or, Rapid lithotrity with evacuation / by Henry J. Bigelow.

Date:
1878
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Credit: Litholapaxy, or, Rapid lithotrity with evacuation / by Henry J. Bigelow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [From the New York Medical Record, June 8th, 1878.] Rapid Lithotrity with Evacuation. To THE Editor of the Medical Record. An article by Dr. Keyes, in your last issue (May 18th), gives me occasion to call attention to one or two misapprehensions which pervade his allusions to Modern Lithotrity, as he terms the new operation for stone. In this article, which is devoted mainly to a descrip- tion of the jaws of a lithotrite, the writer states that my lithotrite must sometimes clog, because it is made on the principle of Reliquet's. He is mistaken. In the first place, Reliquet's instrument is fenestrated: mine is not. In the second place, as an ascertained fact, my lithotrite does not impact. The male blade is furnished with lateral notches forming inclined planes by which the detritus is extruded right and left, except where a small portion at the heel is driven through a slot by an effective spur. Reliquet's non-impacting lithotrite is identical with the obsolete fenestrated h'isc- pierre, with teeth in the opening below to insure pul- verization. Dr. Keyes proposes to remove these added teeth, and return to the brisepierre a mors fenetre [por'te a fattx) of Charriere. (Nouveau Diet, de M^d; et de Chir., Paris, 1875, Tom. XX. p. 667.) In fact, he goes back to the flattened jaws of the slightly indented and fenestrated or open female blade figured by'Costello (Cycloped. of Pract. Surgery, London, 1861, Vol. III.