10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITHOTOMIES»
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1
Medical Ethics in the Ancient World
In the first place, all this presupposes that classical Greek medicine was for the
most part divided into specialties. This I have already argued against in Part I.
Also there is no evidence that suggests that lithotomies were usually fatal. In fact
...
2
American Doctors in Canton: Modernization in China, 1835-1935
The surgery consisted of three main lines, operations on eyes, lithotomies (
removals of stones), and removal oftumors (including ovarian cysts). Dr. Parker
carried out a large number of operations for the removal of cataracts on children
and ...
3
The Popularization of Medicine
Unfortunately, no 'ostensible records' of the lithotomies performed in London
hospitals during the eighteenth century were preserved. Alexander Marcet first
noted this lack of records in 1817, but he uncovered the records of 506
lithotomies ...
4
For Fear of Pain: British Surgery, 1790-1850
Though many lithotomies could he concluded within five ot even thtee minutes
even Asdey Coopet and the eldet Henty Cline had taken ovet an hout to temove
latge ot oddly situated stones. Lithotomy desetved its teputation. Expetienced ...
5
French Perceptions of the Early American Republic 1783-1793
Gaz., 7 Oct. 1772; David Ramsay, History of South-Carolina . . . to the Year 1808 (
2v., Charleston, 1809), II, 94, says Bond performed 17 lithotomies, that John
Jones in New York and Philadelphia performed 60, and that Philip Turner
performed ...
6
British Medicine in an Age of Reform
But, in either case, these lithotomies illustrate how foreign observations could be
made directly serviceable to an individual's career development when he
returned home. The attention to technique in Thomson's account of these
operations is ...
Roger French, Andrew Wear, 2005
7
The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a ...
His cases are divided in the following manner : 13 female patients : 10
lithotomies, with 1 death. 3 lithotrities — — — 15 children : 12 lithotomies, with 1
death. 3 lithotrities — — — 2 extractions. If these 30 cases are deducted, there
remain 782 ...
William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan, 1889
Lithotomies, like any surgery on the excretory system, added embarrassment to
the other pains of an operation. Since lithotomies were common, hospitals had
special tables on which the reclining patient was bound and held. Defoe would
be ...
Paula R. Backscheider, 1992
9
Oxford Loose-leaf Surgery
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS FOR VESICAL STONE The late Sir Henry
Thompson collected details of 1,827 lateral lithotomies performed in British
hospitals previous to the introduction of the operation of litholapaxy, showing 229
deaths, or a ...
Frederic Francis Burghard, Dean Dewitt Lewis, 1926
10
Report on Sanitation, Dispensaries and Jails in Rajputana ...
Of the operations performed 2,170 were Extractions of the Lens for Cataract of
which 2,024 were reported successful 42 Lithotomies, 192 Litholapaxies and 133
Amputations against 2,464, 49, 151 and 214 respectively in 1921. 61.
Rajputana (Agency). Medical Dept, 1926
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Typically during percutaneous lithotomies, an assisting clinician controls suction by bending and kinking the plastic tubing leading to the device ... «Medgadget.com, Sep 13»
