A treatise on the high operation for the stone ... / By William Cheselden.
- William Cheselden
- Date:
- 1723
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the high operation for the stone ... / By William Cheselden. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tomy at Leyden, performed it af¬ terwards in Holland, cutting exact¬ ly between the entrance of the me- ters, and with great fuccefs. In my opinion, this way of cutting ex¬ ceeds the two former, and would be yet better, if the bladder was filled with water before the operation. Profper Alpinus mentions a wayt that he had feen practised among the Egyptians of drawing flones through the Urethra, but thefe can be no other, than very fmallflones, or gravel, and furely fuch as firfl lodged there, though the operator pretended to raise them out of the bladder. Pierre Franco (vid. pag. 3 4.J is the firfl Author that mentions cut¬ ting for the flone above the os pu¬ bis, he fays his operation fucceeded in an extraordinary manner, yet he discourages others from performing it, for which Roffet cenfures him (everely (vuf pag. 67.] Roffet](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3050482x_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
