An inquiry into the average mortality in lithotomy cases : with a few remarks on the operation of lithotrity / by Alexander Miller.

  • Miller, Alexander, 1808?-1846.
Date:
1831
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Credit: An inquiry into the average mortality in lithotomy cases : with a few remarks on the operation of lithotrity / by Alexander Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    id the reports made by hospital surgeons, I find, ut of the surgeons of whose operations we have \y thing like a tolerably accurate statement, the ,;t is Cheselden, who, at St Thomas’s Hospital, [•formed the operation two hundred and thirteen ies.* Of this large number twenty died; but 1 are at the same time informed, that several >>re died of smallpox; and these deaths from ; allpox, whose number he does not think fit to •ntion, were, in all probability, numerous, and ve been set down by him to the successful side ;he average ; and yet it must be obvious to every [3, that an average only of the success in these tes should have been placed on the successful (e, and an average mortality on the opposite. ie may with safety, then, I think, reduce the Mirage success in Cheselden’s cases to somewhat ss than one in ten and a half, the average i ich he himself has given. But though I have, accordance with all medical writers, spoken of history of Cheselden’s cases as given by him- tf, I do not think it proper, giving to the iole subject that cautious examination which it i piires, to admit as a document, entitled to a iil consideration, statements made by surgeons