A Case of Supra-Pubic Lithotomy

A Successful Case of Supra Pubic Lithotomy

a large size, and had existed for 3 or 4 years. The patient was subject to chronic bronchitis and emphysema; was in a very reduced state of health ; could hardly lie on his back ; passed most of his time in a sitting posture, and was in great misery from pain and constant dribbling of urine. Four days after admission, under chloroform, No. 12 silver catheter was passed; the urine was drawn off,...

Supra-Pubic Cystotomy in a Case of Enlarged Prostate

By BASHIRUDDIN AHMED, Sub-Assistant Surgeon, Sadar Hospital, Comilla. An aged Brahmin, about 75 years of age, was brought to this hospital on the night of the 15th October, 1927, for treatment for retention of urine, due to an enlarged prostate. Retention had been complete for 72 hours, and an attempt made at Brahmanbaria hospital to pass a catheter had been unsuccessful. There was no history o...

A Case of Lithotomy

out the guide of a staff can effect entrance into the bladder for the purpose of extracting stones, although it is a hazardous proceeding. It also proves that in cases of almost impenetrable strictures of the urethra complicated with a stone in the bladder the median section may be successfully performed. Case.?Judu, a Hindoo boy, aged about six years, was admitted into the hospital on the 13th...

On a Supra-Pubic Transverse Fascial Incision in Gynæcological Cœliotomy

A Successful Case of Lithotomy

I think, deserving of being placed on record as, so far as I can ascertain, it is the first case of lithotomy which has been performed in Upper Burmah, though many deaths occur with symptoms which are indicative of the presence of stone in the bladder,?a disease totally unknown to the native doctors, who unlike their brethren iti India, though they practice physic, know nothing of surgery, and ...