Excerpt from On the Origin and Progress of Renal Surgery, With Special Reference to Stone in the Kidney and Ureter and to the Surgical Treatment of Calculous Anuria: Together With a Critical Examination of Subparietal Injuries of the Ureter When my colleagues in the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons did me the honour to appoint me Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology for the year 1898, I had, in the first place, intended to give my personal experience of the several different renal affections Which it has been my lot to treat surgically during the seventeen years Which have' elapsed since my first operation of nephrolithotomy. But When I came face to face With my task I found that to do so would necessitate a very cursory survey of a considerable number of subjects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.