Some Reasons Why Lithotomy Is Still Performed
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These considerations in favour of lithotomy are not put forward in any spirit of prejudice to litholapaxy, but rather as an attempt at an explanation why lithotomy is still so largely performed in India. The impression of modern literature is that lithotomy is seldom necessary and seldom performed. This surely cannot be the case in the practice of surgeons in India. In very contradiction to this impression a recent
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