Successful Case of Lithotomy

A Successful Case of Lithotomy

I think, deserving of being placed on record as, so far as I can ascertain, it is the first case of lithotomy which has been performed in Upper Burmah, though many deaths occur with symptoms which are indicative of the presence of stone in the bladder,?a disease totally unknown to the native doctors, who unlike their brethren iti India, though they practice physic, know nothing of surgery, and ...

A Successful Case of Supra Pubic Lithotomy

a large size, and had existed for 3 or 4 years. The patient was subject to chronic bronchitis and emphysema; was in a very reduced state of health ; could hardly lie on his back ; passed most of his time in a sitting posture, and was in great misery from pain and constant dribbling of urine. Four days after admission, under chloroform, No. 12 silver catheter was passed; the urine was drawn off,...

Case of Lithotomy

A boy, about ton years old, was brought to the Gwalior Dispensary with symptoms of stone, and with a wound in the left groin, from which the urine dribbled. 11 is father stated that "four years before a " hakeem," in the city, had operated on him, and. had made the wound in the left groin, and removed a stone or part of one ; that the wound did not heal, and tlie boy for two years continued to ...

A Case of Lithotomy

out the guide of a staff can effect entrance into the bladder for the purpose of extracting stones, although it is a hazardous proceeding. It also proves that in cases of almost impenetrable strictures of the urethra complicated with a stone in the bladder the median section may be successfully performed. Case.?Judu, a Hindoo boy, aged about six years, was admitted into the hospital on the 13th...

Case of Lithotomy