A history of the high operation for the stone, by incision above the pubis : with observations on the advantages attending it : and an account of the various methods of lithotomy, from the earliest periods to the present time / by J.C. Carpue.

  • Carpue, J. C. (Joseph Constantine), 1764-1846.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A history of the high operation for the stone, by incision above the pubis : with observations on the advantages attending it : and an account of the various methods of lithotomy, from the earliest periods to the present time / by J.C. Carpue. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Dr. Marcet, physician to Guy's hospital, in his essay on calcareous disorders, gives the following account: There is reason to believe, as will be seen in the course of this work, that the average propor- tion of deaths from the operation is no less than one in five ; and that the proportion of calculous cases admitted into our hospitals, is one for each three or four hundred cases of all descriptions. In page 25 of the doctor's work, he gives the following table : Returns of the- Cases of Lithotomy in ffie Norfolk and Nortvich Hospital, from 1772 to 1816, making a period of forty-Jour years. NUMBER OF OPERATIONS. DEATHS. Children under 14. Adults. Total. Children. Adults. 56 1 Total. Males .. Females 227 8 251 20 478 28 12 1 68 2 235 271 506 13 57 70 It appears from the above table, that the mean annual number of cases of lithotomy, in the Nor- wich Hospital, during the last forty-four years, has been eleven and a half, or twenty-three in every two years; and that the total number of fatal cases in the five hundred and six operations, is seventy: a proportion of deaths corresponding L