SUPRA-PUBIC LITHOTOMY : A HISTORICAL SKETCH.

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,...

On a Supra-Pubic Transverse Fascial Incision in Gynæcological Cœliotomy

Supra-Pubic Cystotomy in a Case of Enlarged Prostate

By BASHIRUDDIN AHMED, Sub-Assistant Surgeon, Sadar Hospital, Comilla. An aged Brahmin, about 75 years of age, was brought to this hospital on the night of the 15th October, 1927, for treatment for retention of urine, due to an enlarged prostate. Retention had been complete for 72 hours, and an attempt made at Brahmanbaria hospital to pass a catheter had been unsuccessful. There was no history o...

Catatonia as a putative nosological entity: A historical sketch

Kahlbaum was the first to propose catatonia as a separate disease following the example of general paresis of the insane, which served as a model for establishing a nosological entity. However, Kahlbaum was uncertain about the nosological position of catatonia and considered it a syndrome, or "a temporary stage or a part of a complex picture of various disease forms". Until recently, the issue ...

Chemical transmission of nerve impulses. A historical sketch

Z. M. BACQ, Chemical transmission of nerve impulses. A historical sketch, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. [xii], 106, illus., £7.00. The most appropriate individual to survey advances in a complex scientific field of research is a person who has contributed importantly to it. Such is the case with this book, which was published first in French in 1974, for Professor Bacq has worked on th...