The Revival of Suprapubic Lithotomy in England

ted to the favourable consideration of British Surgeons by its distinguished advocate, Sir Henry Thompson, as the best method of dealing with very large stones in adult males and youths, it was suddenly seized upon by a number of: in-experienced lithotomists, as the safest method in their hands, of dealing with small stones in male children, and the good old lateral lithotomy which had stood the test of time had to give way to its fashionable rival. But the pendulum has swung back, and Oheselden's operation will regain the position it should never have lost, but brilliant and