Lithotomia Douglassiana: or, an account of a new method of making the high operation, in order to extract the stone out of the bladder ... / Invented and successfully perform'd by John Douglas.

  • Douglas, John, approximately 1680-1743
Date:
1720
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Lithotomia Douglassiana: or, an account of a new method of making the high operation, in order to extract the stone out of the bladder ... / Invented and successfully perform'd by John Douglas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Franco cut fo firft, becaufe he had a Pa¬ tient that he could not cut his own Way, tho’, at the fame Time, he had the Cha- rafter of one of the beft Lithotomijls of his Age. But tho’ he fucceeded, yet, it feems, he found fuch Difficulties in it, that he would never do’t again, and charges us never to follow his Example ^ which one would have expe&ed that he fhould have explain’d in his Account of it, the better to deter others from the like Practice. Bonnet is faid to have done it feveral Times with Succefs •, yet he don’t recommend it to others as a Rule of Praftice, nor was ever imitated by any of his Contemporaries. Groenevelt did it but once, and fays, he was oblig’d to do it: I fuppofe, in fome fuch- like Cafe as De Franco's j and though he alfo fucceeded, yet, inftead of recommending it, he only draws this Confequence from it, viz. That Wounds of the fibrous Part of the Bladder are not always mortal. Franco cut on the Hair above the Pubis, a little on one Side Groenevelt near the Groin: But not one of them tells us what r * Inftruments they ufed, or which Way they ufed them j whether they made a crofs, ob¬ lique, or longitudinal Incifion } whether they made the Incifion at once, or at feveral Times, or what Pofition they put their Pa¬ tient in j all which, and many more Cir- cumftances, ought to have been exa&ly de- fcrib’d. before any one could be faid to have follow’d