Excerpt from Practical Lithotomy and Lithotrity, or an Inquiry Into the Best Modes of Removing Stone From the Bladder I may premise that it is no part of my design to present a history of the means employed during the last 2000 years to remove stone from the human bladder. Neither is any portion devoted to discussions respecting the chemical and physical constitution of calculi, the causes of calculous formation, or the symptoms which the presence of stone in the bladder gives rise to; these subjects having, with the exception of causation, been fully and successfully exa mined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.