Cases and observations on lithotomy: including hints for the ... performance of the operation ... To which are added observations on the chimney-sweeper's cancer / [W. Simmons].

  • Simmons, W. (William), 1762-1830
Date:
1808
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Credit: Cases and observations on lithotomy: including hints for the ... performance of the operation ... To which are added observations on the chimney-sweeper's cancer / [W. Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Case 1. Francis Deville, aged ten years, was admitted into the Infirmary, under my care, for the stone in the bladder. He was sent from Stqckport, in Cheshire, where a sur- geon had cut him five years before ; but the symptoms had again recurred, and were now very urgent. After the usual prepara- tion therefore, on the 9th of December, 1806, I cut him for the second time. No- thing particular occurred in the former part of the operation, the membranous portion of the urethra having been exposed by the first incision, and penetrated by the second ; through this aperture the beak of the gorget was then introduced into the groove of the staflF, and found a ready admission into the bladder. Nor did this part of the process occupy more than half a minute ; in the subsequent stage however many difficulties presented, and much delay was incurred j for the stone, from being friable in its tex- ture, crumbled between the blades of the forceps, and could not be wholly extracted