Principles of lithotrity; or, a treatise on the art of extracting the stone without incision / By Baron Heurteloup.

  • Heurteloup, (Charles Louis Stanislaus), M. le Baron, 1793-1864.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Principles of lithotrity; or, a treatise on the art of extracting the stone without incision / By Baron Heurteloup. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    judged some of my combinations worthy of several of their highest rewards.* I have observed with regret, that by some this delay, whose object was so legitimate, has been unfavourably construed; and not only this, but that some have profited by it, to indulge in some unfounded speculations, to which it is necessary I should advert. First: I am ignorant from what motive it has been asserted in some books, that I con- demned the instrument termed the perce- pierre.” I am not aware of having in any place either said or written, that this instru- ment was so defective that it ought to be ♦ The Academy of Sciences conferred on me, the 5th March, 1826, a pecuniary reward for writing a Memoire on the extraction of calculi by the urethra, which I presented to them, atid for having, accord- ing to their own expressions, ingeniously perfected the instruments adapted to lithotrity; and, in the year 1827, they awarded tome the first prize of surgery, for the important improvements and inge- nious instruments which I had, in the course of that year, added to lithotrity. In 1826, the Academy of Sciences alluded to my rectangular bed, fixed point, and dvideur d forceps, which, although imperfect at that period, attracted the attention of the Institute; in 1827, the learned gentlemen alluded to the perfections which I had made in the “ evideur a forceps,” and to the invention of the “ brise-coque.”