"LITHOTOMY SIMPLIFIED."

Lithotomy

To the Editor of the '?'?Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?Dr. Partridge, in his letter on Lithotomy Statistics in the March number of your paper, says, "since coming here to Assam I have never heard or met with a case of stone in the bladder, nor has any other medical man done so either, as far as I am aware." For the benefit of Surgeons in Assam I would beg to state that, during the past year, I ...

Suprapubic Lithotomy

To the Editor of " The Indian Mkdical Gazette." Sir,?In accordance with the wishes of the late DirectorGeneral, Indian Medical Service, 1 trust you will publish the following statement of five cases oi supra-pubic lithotomy in children. In all <12 cases of stone have been operated on here during the past year, and the l>irge ProPortion of supra-pubic operations was due to difficulties met with ...

Lithotomy Statistics

Sir,?Several letters have lately appeared in the Indian Medical Gazette on Lithotomy Statistics in India, comparing the mortality of lithotomy with lithotrity and drawing attention to the high mortality in these operations in India. As far as my experience goes, I do not think the first operation so serious a one as is supposed. I have performed this operation (lithotomy) some 70 times, when I ...

Suprapublic Lithotomy

A New Lithotomy Forceps

^ By Suuoeon John O'Neill, M. D., M. Ch., Civil Surgeon, Shahpur. Forty miles distant from the shallt>ur Sadr is the village of Nowshera, approached by a road which in its last twenty miles runs a rough and uneven course over the hilis. Last winter, while inspecting the dispensary there, a man suffering from stone entreated me to afford him relief. He was in a pitiable condition, and could only...