Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 854

CLAUDE NICOLAS LECAT (1700-1768) Parallele de la taille latérale avec celle du lithotome-caché. Chez Marc Michel Rey 1766 xiv, 292 [12] pp., 7 fold. plates. 19.5 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 851

This is the work for which Le Cat is best known and which established him as Europe's leading lithotomist. In the work he compares his method of using a lateral perineal incision to enter the bladder with other types of perineal incisions which often resulted in destruction of important anatomical structures. Among the surgical methods he discusses are those of Cheselden (see No. 813), Tolet (see No. 660), and Frère Côme, along with many illustrative case histories. Le Cat pointed out that his operative approach, unlike that of Cheselden, did not completely cut through the prostate gland or cut the penile arteries, and opened only the neck of the bladder without incising its main body. The seven large folding plates depict the instruments devised by the author as well as the anatomical dissection of the deeper structures of the perineum.

See Related Record(s): 813 660

Cited references: Waller 5658; Wellcome III, p. 468

Gift of John Martin, M.D.