On the Operation of Prostatectomy

, j Americans would be amused if we assert. their citizens?the Wrights?pirated their ideas 0l]t aeroplanes from the Maliabharata, which describes tne use of aeroplanes in the great Indian war! knew Freyer, and I doubt if many of the writers would have tackled him if he were alive, as he was a sharp controversialist. Freyer was a big man who will >ve as one of the landmarks of surgery. He was quite a big enough man to do prostatic enucleation on his own initiative. I am confident that he was not a walking encyclopaedia, and that there were many of the " kings of Israel," such as Fuller, McGill, etc., whom he knew not. His school in India before he went to London was his hospital, where lie had plenty of material of all kinds. Such men are far too busy with their interesting material to become walking encyclopedias. There is no doubt in the mind of the average commonsense surgeon that Freyer's work established the enucleation of the enlarged prostate for all time. We are not convinced that without Freyer the enucleation of the prostate would have been more advanced to-day than it