Note 71 — Chapter LV · THE BLADDER AND PROSTATE.

The question of credit and priority for these operations has been of late much discussed. To McGill, of Leeds, and Goodfellow, of San Francisco, should be given most of the credit for the earliest perineal operations, while Fuller, of New York, who first performed the suprapubic operation in 1894, should probably be given credit for the latter, although it has been evidently unjustly claimed for Freyer, of London. Belfield, of Chicago, was also one of the earliest advocates of extirpation of the enlarged prostate.