Lithotrity and Litholapaxy
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Sir,?I doubt if the proposal which Major C. Duer put forward in his letter headed " Litliotrity and Litholapaxy" in last November issue of The Indian Medical Gazette will find much favour among men of our service interested in the surgery of vesical calculus. We have used the designation 'litholapaxy' in India for the last thirty years to the almost total exclusion of the word ' lithotrity.' I quite agree with Major Duer that it is anomalous to register the same surgical operation under two different headings in Civil Administrative Medical Reports, but I would urge that the remedy for this anomaly
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