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.

Provider: This material has been provided by Kings College London. The original may be consulted at Kings College London.

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    banished from the art. I have said it was inefficient, and I repeat it, because it is essen- tially true, and requires no further demon- stration than the simple description of its action :—It makes only a single hole, of three lines and a half in diameter, in the stone; this alone condemns it: notwithstanding which, it is not the less true that numerous success- ful operations have been performed with this combination, which assigns to it a certain rank amongst lithotritic agents. If I have been described as doing it an injustice, it is probably with the wish to blame me, and create an element of discussion. I would further observe on this subject, that it is un- reasonable to imagine that I entertain such ideas of exclusion, when I was the second surgeon who employed this instrument, and the second who effected cures by it. They have, therefore, been unjust towards me, and so much the more so, that, in accus- ing me of pronouncing' the exclusion of the perce-pierre,” in the face of examples of successful results obtained with this instru-