Lithotomus castratus; or Mr. Cheselden's Treatise on the high operation for the stone, thoroughly examin'd and plainly found to be Lithotomia Douglassiana, under another title: in a letter to Dr. John Arbuthnot. With an appendix, wherein both authors are fairly compar'd / [By R.H. i.e. Robert Houstoun].

  • Houstoun, Robert, -1734
Date:
1723
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Credit: Lithotomus castratus; or Mr. Cheselden's Treatise on the high operation for the stone, thoroughly examin'd and plainly found to be Lithotomia Douglassiana, under another title: in a letter to Dr. John Arbuthnot. With an appendix, wherein both authors are fairly compar'd / [By R.H. i.e. Robert Houstoun]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Indiee non opus eft, noftris nec vindice libris. Mr. Douglas. ** ] In page hi, Mr. Douglas gives us an account of a thefis, (the title of which is, ‘ Quadtio medica- Quodlibetaneis dispu- 1 tationibus mane difeutienda in fcholis f medicoruni die jovis 130 Decembris < 1 c 3 5, M. Nic. Pietreo M. D. Modera-; * tore. Reponebatlutetite, Petrus le Mer- t cier. An, ad extrahendum calculum,, c diflecanda ad pubem vefica ?) fent to him in the following words. I had a copy oi a moft rare and antient thefis, lately lent me from Paris, by that moft excellent anatomift. Dr. Window, one of the mem; bers of the Royal Academy of Sciences, which I don’t doubt will be acceptable tc the curious reader: (To whom according¬ ly he presents it, in the latin, juft as ii came to his hands, and with this learnec queftion he concludes his treatise, giving • a handsome recommendation of it in thes< words) This very Thesis is mention d ir the fourth Century of Bartholine’s Epiflles in a Letter from Guido Patin, dated a Paris,