Note 92 — Chapter XXXIX · THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY IN FRANCE DURING THE RENAISSANCE.—PIERRE FRANCO

After I had written the preceding description of Franco’s new method of extracting a calculus from the urinary bladder, I learned, from Haeser’s account of the surgical writings of Susrutas in the Ayur-Veda (Sanscrit), that already before the Christian era (the exact date is not known) the surgeons of East India had performed this very operation. This fact, however, could not possibly have been known to Franco, who—so far as modern surgeons are concerned—should continue to be looked upon as the real inventor of suprapubic cystotomy.—Author.