On the Origin and Progress of Renal Surgery, With Special Reference to Stone in the Kidney and Ureter and to the Surgical Treatment of Calculous ... Injuries of the Ureter

Excerpt from On the Origin and Progress of Renal Surgery, With Special Reference to Stone in the Kidney and Ureter and to the Surgical Treatment of Calculous Anuria

When my colleagues in the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons did me the honour to appoint me Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology for the year 1898, I had, in the first place, intended to give my personal experience of the several different renal affections Which it has been my lot to treat surgically during the seventeen years Which have' elapsed since my first operation of nephrolithotomy. But When I came face to face With my task I found that to do so would necessitate a very cursory survey of a considerable number of subjects.