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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    of hospitals in which proper records were nevi kept. It must be known to every one, so far a least as I am aware, that authentic, strict, ant official records of cases have never been kept i) any London hospital. I should, nevertheless, fef happy to be corrected if in error on this point, have made strict inquiry of gentlemen who havi been educated in these hospitals, and find frorj them that no such records are ever kept; and thn no official document could be produced, as to matter of this kind, by any London hospital It is admitted by Cheselden, that, previous t| operating in these two hundred and thirteen casei he had lost four in ten,* and, in the high operation one in seven, exclusive of two in wrhich he cm into the general cavity of the peritoneum : thl result of this peculiar style of operating has noi been mentioned. Making all allowance for th« quaintness of the style peculiar to the times ii which Cheselden wrote, it must be admitted tha his statements are not strictly professional, ano that his anxiety to be thought the most successfil lithotomist of his day, might have induced hint to exaggerate, and disregard precise accuracy Speaking of his success, he says, “ What th<