Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1413

GEORGE JAMES GUTHRIE (1785-1856) On the anatomy and diseases of the urinary and sexual organs. J. Churchill 1836 iv [2] 284 pp., 3 col. plates, illus. 22.3 cm.

Guthrie was the most renowned military surgeon of his day and was a prolific author whose best-known treatise was On gun-shot wounds of the extremities (London, 1815). His military career took him to the United States, Spain, and Waterloo where he successfully amputated at the hip and is credited with being the first to ligate the peroneal artery. Guthrie introduced long incisions through the skin to relieve diffused erysipelas, was one of the first to use lithotrity in England, and also did important work in ophthalmic surgery. Guthrie presented these sixteen lectures to members of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1830 and later at the Westminster Hospital in 1833 and 1834. In one of these lectures he describes non-prostatic obstructions at the neck of the bladder and their treatment. Guthrie was the first to mention this type of obstruction, which is also reported on in his On the anatomy and diseases of the neck of the bladder and of the urethra (London, 1834).