Report made to the Institute of France, on the 22d of March, 1824 / by Baron Percy and Chev. Chaussier on a memoir presented by M. Civiale, M.D., of the faculty of Paris, entitled A new method of destroying the stone in the bladder without the operation of lithotomy ; translated from the French by R. La Roche.

  • Percy, Pierre-François, baron, 1754-1825.
Date:
1824
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    to introduce them, although it is perfectly well ascertained that the pathological state of the blad- der depending very often exclusively on the pre- sence of the stone, especially when it is mural, it is sufficient to remove or destroy the foreign body in order that the viscus may promptly re- cover. Children, although very young, do not appear to us to be absolutely excluded from the opera- tion of Mr. Civiale. The small size of their penis, will, perhaps, be offered as an objection; but inde- pendently of the circumstance that this supposi- tion is gratuitous, since the handling and forced elongations which the pain at the extremity of the urethra accustoms them to exercise on that part, increases singularly and prematurely its length and volume, is it not possible to make in- struments proportioned to this very interesting class of calculous patients, as has been done in the other method, to which we are not sure, how- ever, that notwithstanding this precaution, we should not be compelled to refer many cases. From what precedes, and anxious to preserve a just medium between enthusiasm, which exag- gerates, and the prejudice opposite, which endea- vours to underrate all things, we believe that the method proposed by Mr. Civiale for destroying the stone in the bladder, without having recourse to the operation of lithotomy, is equally glorious to French surgery, honourable to its author, and