On Kolpokleisis and Other Allied Procedures as Means of Treating Vesico-Vaginal Fistule; Being an Answer to the Article of the Late Prof. Gustave Simon, of Heidelberg, Entitled "A Comparison of Bozeman's Operation with That of the Author" (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877. Excerpt: ... VESICO-VAGINAL FISTULE. Introductory Remarks.--It was only a few months ago that I read in the January number of the "Eichmond and Louisville Medical Journal," for the first time, a translation from the German of the report by the late Prof. Gustave Simon upon the six cases of vesico-vaginal fistule treated by him and myself in the surgical clinic of the University of Heidelberg in the autumn of 1874. Scarcely need I say these cases were operated upon by us with the view of determining the relative merits of our respective methods. I was glad to find that the views of the able German master had thus been laid before the readers of so popular a journal in this country, and especially to see the force or comprehensiveness of these views maintained by the introduction of all of the fac similes of the author's wood cuts, which were not produced by a prominent British journal in a later London translation of the same article. These wood cuts are, I conceive, of the greatest importance, not only to illustrate the peculiarities presented in these cases, but to show the differences between our respective methods. The criticisms in the article upon me and my operation are such as would naturally be expected from a misapprehension of facts, and from a master who knew what he was about, and wished to present the subject in the strongest possible light from his standpoint. Those contained in the introductory remarks of the translator "about certain things," as he terms it, are unwarranted, and from the spirit in which they were made will be passed over unnoticed. Now, under all these circumstances, I claim on the score of equal fairness and justice, and as an American, the right to lay before the readers of the "Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal" the other side...