Observations on lithotomy : being a republication of Dr. James Douglas' appendix to his History of the lateral operation for the stone, and of other original papers relative to Mr. Cheselden's invention and improvement of that operation ; to which is added, a proposal for a new manner of cutting for the stone / by John Thomson.

Date:
1808
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Credit: Observations on lithotomy : being a republication of Dr. James Douglas' appendix to his History of the lateral operation for the stone, and of other original papers relative to Mr. Cheselden's invention and improvement of that operation ; to which is added, a proposal for a new manner of cutting for the stone / by John Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Vl'l with any of the cutting gorgets now in use, I am aware, however, that the manner of opera- ting which I have proposed may, in some res- pects, appear to be a variation on a method first described by M. Le Dran, in the year' 1742. That you may, at one glance, see the points in Avhich it agrees with, and in which it dif- fers from that of M. Le Dran, I have given M. Le Dran’s account’ of bis operation in his own words. The past history of our art, and j^articularly that branch of it which relates to Lithotomy, shows but too clearly, that this is the only v» ay in which dead authors, at least, are likely to have their opinions correct!}^ and fairly stated. Among the various methods of cutting for the stone which have been suggested by those who, since the time of Mr. Che- selden, have laboured unavailingly to improve ujx)n his ojieration, that of M. Le Dran ap- ]>ears to me to be indeed the simplest and safest in its execution; yet M. Le Dran’s method has met with but little, if any attention, from those, M. Deschamj) excepted, who ha^'e de- scribed or j)ractised the operation for the stone. My proposal will probably meet with a sinii- h