Lithotomy: Median Operation

Lithotomy

To the Editor of the '?'?Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?Dr. Partridge, in his letter on Lithotomy Statistics in the March number of your paper, says, "since coming here to Assam I have never heard or met with a case of stone in the bladder, nor has any other medical man done so either, as far as I am aware." For the benefit of Surgeons in Assam I would beg to state that, during the past year, I ...

Suprapubic Lithotomy

To the Editor of " The Indian Mkdical Gazette." Sir,?In accordance with the wishes of the late DirectorGeneral, Indian Medical Service, 1 trust you will publish the following statement of five cases oi supra-pubic lithotomy in children. In all <12 cases of stone have been operated on here during the past year, and the l>irge ProPortion of supra-pubic operations was due to difficulties met with ...

Lithotomy Statistics

Sir,?Several letters have lately appeared in the Indian Medical Gazette on Lithotomy Statistics in India, comparing the mortality of lithotomy with lithotrity and drawing attention to the high mortality in these operations in India. As far as my experience goes, I do not think the first operation so serious a one as is supposed. I have performed this operation (lithotomy) some 70 times, when I ...

Suprapublic Lithotomy

An Account of a Method of Performing the Operation of Lithotomy at Two Different Times

v VIAn Account of a Method of performing tit \/ Operation of Lithotomy at two different Times. By Petrus Camper, M. D. F. R. S. Honorary Profejfor of Phyjic, Anatomy, and Surgery at Amjierdam, Fellow of the Royal College of PhyJicians and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Imperial Academy at St. Peterfburgh> and of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Royal Medical Society at Paris, &c. Tr...