...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...point of time, if thus the whole stone can be removed without serious injury to the bladder. If the bladder is emptied of detritus, we have as little to...

...sittings," Thompson assigning two minutes as the proper average duration of a sitting. Bigelow believes that it is better to protract the operation indefinitely,...point of time, if thus the whole stone can be removed without serious injury to the bladder. In any case which is as favourable to lithotrity as the average,...

...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...point of time, if thus the whole stone can be removed without serious injury to the bladder," and that " if the bladder can be completely emptied of detritus,...

...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...point of time, if thus the whole stone can be removed without serious injury to the bladder." The evacuating apparatus consists of straight and curved silver...