...irritating its lining membrane, we can hardly doubt that the relief would then have been followed by ready repair. In short, it is difficult to avoid the...in an average case damage to the mucous membrane, and quite as great, is as likely to follow the persistent irritation by angular fragments as the protracted...

...stone are resting. Such cases have been supposed to point to the necessity for extreme precaution. But, if at the first operation the bladder' could...removal of a stone, if this result can be accomplished." Guided by these considerations, lithotrity having been emancipated from the limitation previously recognised,...