Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 866.1

JEAN BASEILHAC (1703-1781) Nouvelle méthode d’extraire la pierre de la vessie urinaire par-dessus le pubis : qu’on nomme vulgairement le haut appareil dans l’un & l’autre sexe, sans le secours d’aucun fluide retenu ni forcé dans la vessie : suivie de l’analyse des expériences de l’Académie royale de chirurgie de Paris, sur l’extraction de la pierre de la vessie urinaire de l’homme, par-dessous le pubis. Chez d’Houry 1779 First Edition [4], 288 p., V folded leaves of plates : ill. 18 cm.

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Baseilhac “devised several new instruments for use in suprapubic lithotomy. This operation, placed in retirement when Cheselden adopted the lateral approach, was once more brought to the fore by Frere Come.: -- Garrison Morton 4285. Baseilhac (frère Côme or frère Cosme, after Saint Cosme, the patron of surgeons) was a French surgeon and lithotomist as well as a monk, attached in Paris to the Hôtel-Dieu. At his own expense, he founded a Paris hospice for the poor, where he looked after the patients himself. He published in 1779 A Method to Extract the Stone. In 1761, he was shown the skill of the midwife Mistress Marguerite Angelique du Coudray, and convinced of the usefulness of the courses she proposed, he presented it to the Comptroller General Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin who supported these projects. A controversy pitted the famous surgeon against surgeon Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768) about his practice of hiding lithotome (Parallel with the lateral size of the hidden lithotome, published by The Cat in Amsterdam in 1766 under the pseudonym Nahuys PY).

Cited references: Wellcome II p.110; Waller 759; Garrison & Morton 4285

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