A compleat treatise of the gravel and stone, wherein all their symptoms, causes, and cures, are mechanically accounted for : with arguments in defence of the possibility of dissolving the stone in the bladder ... To which is added, a dissertation upon the operation of nephrotomy, or the possibility of cutting into the kidney, for the extraction of the stone ... / By Nicholas Robinson.

  • Nicholas Robinson
Date:
1734
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Credit: A compleat treatise of the gravel and stone, wherein all their symptoms, causes, and cures, are mechanically accounted for : with arguments in defence of the possibility of dissolving the stone in the bladder ... To which is added, a dissertation upon the operation of nephrotomy, or the possibility of cutting into the kidney, for the extraction of the stone ... / By Nicholas Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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