...bladder, restricted the length of his operation to two or three, or perhaps five minutes. The same solicitude seems to have led Sir Henry Thompson, in...injury to the bladder. I believe that in any case which is as favorable to lithotrity as the average, in these days when stones are detected early, this...

...but since he has used anesthetics he recognizes the advantages of 11 longer sitting. Dr. Bigclow's conviction is, that it is better to protract the operation...be removed without serious injury to the bladder. If the bladder is emptied of detritus, we have as little to apprehend from fatigue of the organ, as...

...sittings," Thompson assigning two minutes as the proper average duration of a sitting. Bigelow believes that it is better to protract the operation indefinitely,...be removed without serious injury to the bladder. In any case which is as favourable to lithotrity as the average, in these days when stones are detected...

...all fragments and debris by means of an aspirator. Dr. Bigelow's experience has led him to believe that "it is better to protract the operation indefinitely...be removed without serious injury to the bladder," and that " if the bladder can be completely emptied of detritus, we have as little to apprehend from...

...fragments of calculi is much greater than from the blades of a properly constructed instrument, and " that it is better to protract the operation indefinitely...be removed without serious injury to the bladder." The evacuating apparatus consists of straight and curved silver tubes of sizes varying from twenty-seven...