John Lacy Firth

Intra-Cranial Complications of Ear Disease: A Discussion at the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, March 13th, 1912

Extra-Peritoneal Suppuration in Perforating Appendicitis

The truth of the statement that the vermiform appendix is a totally intra-peritoneal structure appears to have been satisfactorily demonstrated. There are, however, numerous published statistics which appear to show that a portion of the appendix may be uncovered by peritoneum in a natural state of the parts. Fowler writes: "The completeness with which this [the peritoneum] covers the organ var...

Paralysis of the Respiratory Centre from Intracranial Pressure

in which death is sometimes, if not frequently, produced, when intracranial pressure is increased; viz., by paralysis of the respiratory centre in the medulla. For this purpose I record two cases in which death was produced by such paralysis, and refer to other published examples of it, and to the work of experimental physiologists which elucidates its origin. The two cases are both of extradur...

On Nephropexy

side. Earlier still I had practised the method of Edebohls, in which the renal capsule is deflected from both the anterior andposterior surfaces of the kidney half-way to the hilum, and the deflected portion of the capsule and the undeflected part nearby are transfixed with fixation or suspension sutures, the endsof which are carried through the muscles on each side of the wound. My reason for ...

The Evolutionary History of Renal Surgery and of Temporal Bone Surgery

In the winter of 1886-87, thirty-seven years ago, when I became a surgical dresser to Mr. Marcus Beck in University College Hospital, and for the first time came into close contact with surgical cases, I was told by one of my chiefs to pay particular attention to a case of nephrectomy. The operation of nephrectomy, it was said, had not been performed many times, and it was important that every ...