A
SHORT TREATISE
ON THE
SECTION OF THE PROSTATE GLAND,
IN
LITHOTOMY.
F. WARR, Printer,
RED LION PASSAGE, RED LION SQUARE.
A
SHORT TREATISE
ON THE
SECTION OF THE PROSTATE GLAND
IN
LITHOTOMY;
WITH AN EXPLANATION OF A SAFE AND EASY METHOD OF CONDUCTINGTHE OPERATION ON THE PRINCIPLES OF
CHESELDEN.
ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS.
By C. ASTON KEY,
SURGEON TO GUY’S HOSPITAL, AND TO THE MAGDALEN.
“Occupons-nous maintenant d’un Lithotomiste bien plus célèbre qui mérite la reconnoissancede son siècle et celle des siècles à venir; je veux dire Cheselden.”
Deschamps.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER ROW:
S. HIGHLEY, 74, FLEET STREET; T. & G. UNDERWOOD, 32, FLEET STREET;
AND E. COX & SON, ST. THOMAS’S STREET, SOUTHWARK.
MDCCCXXIV.
In selecting the Name that graces the head of this page,I am influenced, not only by feelings as a surgeon, to rendera slight tribute to unrivalled professional reputation, but alsoby gratitude for the many acts of friendship I have personallyreceived at his hands.
Educated under his eye, I am proud to acknowledge, thatI consider myself indebted to his professional instructions, andto his excellent advice, for whatever information and advancementI possess; and I am sensible, that in no way moresatisfactory to him can I repay his kindness, than by unceasinglabor in a science which it is his constant study toimprove, and by endeavours to attain a respectable characterin a profession of which he constitutes the brightestornament.
C. ASTON KEY.
18, St. Helen’s Place, April, 1824.
To Cheselden Operative Surgery is indebted for one of themost important improvements, that the whole range of theprofession can present. The certainty and safety with whicha most painful disease can be relieved, stamps the lateraloperation of Lithotomy as a bold and highly rewardedeffort of genius,—as a present of inestimable value to sufferinghumanity,—and as a just cause of triumph to our nationalfeelings as surgeons.
It has now undergone the test of nearly a century, and,like all improvements of real value, it has past through itsordeal with increased rather than diminished credit.
Connected with a school that gave birth to the presentlateral operation, and deeply impressed with the conviction ofits superiority over every other mode of operating in this[vi]disease, I need offer no apology for reviewing what appearsto me to be the true principle of the operation.
A review of this kind is perhaps the more required