Practical remarks on amputations, fractures, and strictures of the urethra / by Stephen Love Hammick.

  • Hammick, Stephen Love.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Practical remarks on amputations, fractures, and strictures of the urethra / by Stephen Love Hammick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    THE FIKST EDITION. The larger portion of the matter contained in the follow- ing pages was prepared for the Lettsomian Surgical Lectures of the Medical Society of London for the past year. The limits prescribed, however, permitted me to select for delivery only a portion of the matter prepared. I have, therefore, determined on publishing the whole in its original form, believing that in this way only could I hope to do anything like justice to the subject itself, or to the views which are put forth in relation to it. I may premise that it is no part of my design to present a history of the means employed during the last 2000 years to remove stone from the human bladder. Neither is any portion devoted to discussions respecting the chemical and physical constitution of calculi, the causes of calculous formation, or the symptoms which the presence of stone in the bladder gives rise to : these subjects having, with the exception of causation, been fully and successfully examined. The sole object of this work is to present a considera- tion of the best operative procedures now in use for the removal of stone from the bladder of the male patient.