Volume 1

The history of the lateral operation, or an account of the method of extracting a stone, by making a wound near the great protuberance of the os ischium ... first attempted by Frère Jacques ... and afterwards by Professor Rau ... With a postscript concerning the introduction and improvement of this method here in London / By James Douglas.

  • James Douglas
Date:
1726
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Credit: The history of the lateral operation, or an account of the method of extracting a stone, by making a wound near the great protuberance of the os ischium ... first attempted by Frère Jacques ... and afterwards by Professor Rau ... With a postscript concerning the introduction and improvement of this method here in London / By James Douglas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Wound and the Faces upon Occafton. He ordered the Curtains of the Bed to be drawn clofe, that the Light might not difturb the Patient’s Reft, to compofe whom he ordered an Anodyne Emulflon to ba drunk ad Libitum. After the Operation, and the Sick being juft laid upon the Bed, he cried out of exquiflte Pains in the Gians of the Yard, when the Stone was taken away, which happens by Confent; in all which the Membrane of the Urethra has with the inward Membrane of the Bladder. On the 7th of March, I faw another Lithotomy or Operation for the Stone performed by my Mailer on a Jewifh Boy of Seven Years old,* in which, befides what I have already told you, nothing particular hap¬ pened, except the falling down of the Inteflinum Reclum, occafioned by the Cries of the Patient ,* which lubricating with Oil he put up again with his Fingers, daft it Ihould hinder him in his Operation. • ( _ (v ,i,. „...... \ ... ..,. ■ : «.s 1 n't . vr* ’' , -‘i' o» 1 t <••• /•, 7 ; r , J f *]:: ' • ' 'O']' £ ' - ' : By comparing this Account of Raus Operation with that which is given by Albinusy it will be very eafy to fee how full it is of Miflakes, that is, how much it is of a-piece with ail the reft of this Author's Book. d:r// prtjv, •“ mu in ; -• ■ - - ■ - - ' ' ■ • , ■ _ * \ ’ :t % t r ( - 1 , « x ; , ' ; i A * * '.•» Mr. CheJeUen makes A^’s Method to be the fame with that of Frere [Jacques; for after tranfcribing fome few Things from Dionis about that, h*e tells us, that the late Mr. Rau, Profeftor of Anatomy at Leyden, per¬ form’d it afterwards in Holland, Cutting exactly between the Entrance ojt the Ureters, and with great Succefs. ■ « - 1 * . — * r - ' f It is not a little furprizing how Mr. Chefeldeny who is fo perfe&ly wrell acquainted with the true Structure of thefe Parts of the Body, came to l^t himfelf be fo grofly impos’d upon by the Perfon that gave him this Ac¬ count of Raus Operation, which the leaft Reflection muft have convinced him to beFalfe and impoffible, as„ fliall be prefentiy fhown. What he has added, is I believe very juft ,* at leaft it deferves the Attention of all fuch as fhall ever undertake the Practice of Mr. Raus Operation. In my Opinion, fays he, this. Way of Cutting exceeds the two former, (that is, the greater and kfler Apparatus) and would be yet better, if the Bladder was ...filled with Water before the Operation. * * t ^ / l l , , j. , „ - ■ . ‘ !> • r \ ' , ’• ' ‘ 1 ’ ’ ' 1 . • ■ y \ ft Mr T . 'll | t ] , ' l . { _ * j * ■ * •'* ' : ' ' Thefe, and many other fuch as thefe Accounts, have been given of Mr.,Psau$ Method of Cutting for the Stone j and I have only fet down W two