Clinical lectures on the surgical diseases of the urinary organs

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CLINICAL LECTURES

ON

Preface

These lectures have from time to time been delivered at the Medical Graduates' College and Polyclinic, and at St. Peter's Hospital for Urinary Diseases. Many of them have already been published in various medical journals ; and those on Enlargement of the Prostate and Stone in the Bladder have run through several editions in monograph form. The lectures have now been amplified, brought up to date, and arranged in convenient order, to comply with the invitation of the Publishers that I should prepare a comprehensive work on the surgery of the urinary organs.

My aim in these lectures has been to give a clear, concise, and practical resume of our most recent knowledge of the subjects dealt with, the methods of treatment advocated being those which in my own practice I have found sound and effective. No principle is here inculcated that has not been fully subjected to the test of my own experience.

A word of explanation is, perhaps, due for retaining in a work of this kind the numerous illustrative cases that appeared in the last edition of my work on the prostate. In doing so I have had a twofold object in view — first, that these cases illustrate in detail many practical points connected with the operation of enucleation of the enlarged vi PREFACE

ond, that in the case of a comparatively new operation of this kind, for which I am personally responsible, I have thought it right to place before the reader ample

evidence of its practical value

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