II. An account of a gentleman's being cut for the stone in the kidney, with a brief enquiry into the antiquity and practice of Nephrotomy

Abstract

Nephrotomy restraining its Signification to Cutting in the Kidney for the Stone, is an Operation which hath been hitherto so little practised, and always thought to be attended with so much difficulty and danger, that very few of those Authors who have treated of the Diseases of the Kidnyes, and particularly of the Stone there, have thought it worth their while to mention it;