Douglas, History of the Lateral Operation, 1726

The History of the Lateral Operation: Or, An Account of the Method of Extracting a Stone, by making a Wound near the great Protuberance of the Os Ischium, thorugh the Common Integuments and Levator Ani, into the Side of the Bladder, without touching the Urethra, Prostate Gland, Vesiculae Seminales, or any other of the Urinary or Seminal Vessels; first attempted by Frere Jacques in France, and afterwards successfully perform’d by Professor Rau in Holland. With a Postscript Concerning the Introduction and Improvement of this Method here in London. By James Douglas, M.D. London: Printed for G. Strahan, at the Golden Ball, over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill. MDCCXXVI. 
 
Modern quarter brown leather with marbled paper over boards and gold text on spine. New end papers. Red speckled page edges. Title page trimmed at bottom edge into last line of text. Margins trimmed throughout but text retained. A clean, bright, and tight copy. 
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Per Murphy, History of Urology, James Douglas was brother of John Douglas, a lithotomist who accused Cheselden of plagiarism.. Debate over, and modifications of the high and lateral operations continued and “the perfected operation was described by James Douglas in 1731.” He also described white prostatic calculi in 1707. “Douglas condemned Frere Jacques as a ‘most profligate, abandoned wretch.’” (pg105). Heister and John Bell disagreed.