The substance of a lecture Author:Thomas King Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Works published by the Author. DISSERTATION sur la LIGATURE de L'ARTERE INNO- MINEE, et des Arteres sous clavieres, entre leur origine et la premiere cote; av... more »ec la description de nouveaux precedes operatoires pour arriver a ces vaisseaux. Paris, 1828. LITHOTRITY and LITHOTOMY COMPARED: being an Analytical Examination of the present methods of treating Stone in the Bladder ; with suggestions for rendering Lithotrity applicable to the Disease, in almost all its Stages and Varieties; and remarks on the General Treatment of Gravel and Stone. Longman and Co. " Of the manner in which Dr. King has executed his task, we can indulge in terms of the warmest approbation. His descriptions are evidently taken from actual dissection ; his observations, particularly his measurements of different parts are quite original."—Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science. " The present state of Surgery respecting Operations for Stone, renders the subject of this work extremely interesting."—Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal. " Dr. King's hook on Stone, is one that no practical surgeon ought to be without."—Spectator. "The description of the "parts concerned in Lithotomy, is the best we have seen in any work."—Lancet. " It certainly deserves a place in the library of every surgeon who undertakes to perform either Lithotrity or Lithotomy."—London Medical and Surgical Journal. " When we meet with works written in an original and thoroughly searching spirit of inquiry, we are sometimes tempted to advance into those regions of science, which lie out of our ordinary track. The above work is one of these. Some of his anatomical descriptions are new, and are justly claimed by the author as discoveries."—Examiner. " Silence is our censure—notice is our praise. We need say no ...« less