Note 13 — A SHORT TREATISE ON LITHOTOMY.

I should not omit to mention that I did not adopt this alteration in the instruments, without having first operated at the hospital, both with the Cutting-Gorget, and also with the beaked knife, in conjunction with the common staff. I was not led to lay them aside by the issue of the cases, as they were successful; but the difficulty and hazard attending their introduction, together with the general unsuccessful issue of Gorget operations, compared with Cheselden’s method, induced me to use a more simple form of instruments.