Practical observations on the lateral operation of lithotomy / [William Keith].

  • Keith, William, 1802 or 1803-1871
Date:
[1844]
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Credit: Practical observations on the lateral operation of lithotomy / [William Keith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JL PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE LATERAL OPERATION OF LITHOTOMY. By WILLIAM KEITH, M. D., Surgeon, Junior-Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, and Lecturer on Clinical Surgery in that Institution* {From the Edin. Med. and Snrg. Journal, No. 159.) In my paper on Hospital Statistics of Stone in the Bladder, as occurring in the Aberdeen Infirmary, published in the January number of the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal for this present year, (No. 158, page 123), the tables show that, between the age of 50 and 60, six were operated on, and all recovered; between the age of 60 and 70, seven wero operated on, and all recovered; and that of six operated on between 70 and 80 years of age, five recovered ; giving, therefore, only one death in nine¬ teen cases, where the ages ranged from 50 up to 78; a result so unusual that I trust it may form a sufficient apology for my com¬ ing before the profession with a detailed statement of a mode of practice that has been crowned with such signal success. I re* frain from contrasting the above results with the recorded experi¬ ence of others at like ages, lest it should seem invidious, and because it is little needed, as such record must be in the hands of every member of the profession who takes an interest in this branch of our art, and all may find full information on the sub* ject in I)r Willis's work on the treatment of Stone in the Bind*? A