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A history of the high operation for the stone, by incision above the pubis : with observations on the advantages attending it : and an account of the various methods of lithotomy, from the earliest periods to the present time / By J.C. Carpue.

Joseph Constantine Carpue

Date:: 1819

Credit: A history of the high operation for the stone, by incision above the pubis : with observations on the advantages attending it : and an account of the various methods of lithotomy, from the earliest periods to the present time / By J.C. Carpue. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$most important ones do not take place ; and though they have absolutely discredited this way of cutting with the present age, I shall not be surprised if* hereafter, on particular occasions, it should be revived and practised with success.’’ \ i • • Although these gentlemen gave it as their opi¬ nion, that the High Operation might be performed at a future period, and though they state, with great propriety, incontrovertible reasons for the discontinuance of this mode of operation, they do not point out any means by which the opera¬ tion may be performed with safety. However, Mr. Cl eland (surgeon to General Wade’s regiment of horse), seeing with regret the discontinuance of an operation which seemed to him more calcu¬ lated to relieve those unfortunate beings, who laboured under a disease which no doubt is more to be dreaded than any other disorder incidental to the human frame, gave in the following paper to the Royal Society :* “ A Description of a Catheter made to remedy the inconveniences which occasioned the leaving off the High Operation for the Stone. “ As this operation was left off precipitately, in order to introduce that method now called the Lateral Operation, which has been practised for some time with good success ; notwithstanding, had the operators at that time had the advantage * See Philosophical Transactions, vol. 41, p. 844,$