The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-13 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERSS.

WAsittNaroN, Nov: 18.—The contest is over. The
electors of President and 'Vice-President of the United
Stairs have been chosen in almost every St:tte of this
Union; and sufficient returns have already been received,
to leave no ►lottbt that n large majority of the doctors
chosen are friendly to the elevation of General Jackson to

the Presideuvy. Should he live, therefore, to enjoy the
honour, it may be regarded as certain that Andrew Jack-
son, of Tennessee; is to he the next President of the United
States. That this result is us oontraty to our expectations
a.. it is foreign to, our wishes, abundant proof has been fur-
nished by our columns for the Just two years, and especially
fur the last six months.

Fuom Onro._These seems no longer to be any doubt
that electors favourable to General Jackson have been
chosen in this State. The Western Cornet estimates the
majority at upwards of 1,000. The Cornet We
have not sect' authentic statements front every county, but
front those already received the final result cannot be miss
taken. His majority will not vary much, probably, from
1,000. Whatever we may thick upon this subject, we
shall at least forbear to speak. It is a received maxim,
that " the King can do no wrong;" and equally true, we
suppose, " that the people can do no wrong." Be this as
it may, it is not our present purpose to rebel against their
Majesty.
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKt', Nov. B.—There is no longer
any doubt about the result of the election in this State.—
The majority in favour of Jackson is decisive, even large.
The august majorities in the Administration counties have
he.en diminished, while those in the Jackson counties have
been increased. 1 consider the result in Indiana very
doubtful, and scarcely less so in Ohio.

HUDSON, N.Y. Nov.. 11.—The election has dosed, and
in old Columbia it has resulted in the success of the entire
Republican Administration Ticket. The friends of li-
berty Od the Constitution, of the American system and
northern interests, have had a severe struggle in rhea
county, but they have sustained themselves nobly in the
midst of corruption. They have prostitutal (tbough, by
small majorities) the most insolent and domineering faction
that ever disgraced a civilised people. W hope and trust
that in no other county in the Stone have the adherents of.
Gen. Jatildoll been so reckless of their own reputation, - so
regardless of the means of compassing their ernls as in
Columbia. Their preparatory measures, falsehood, and
boasting, erecting jtickory-pales, pouring down libations,
and letting loose the genius of wild and rtni•iersal up..
roar, sink into insignificance compared with their open
contempt of law, order, and decency at the polls. At a
moderate estimate, more than Flu rnousANn not.t..ans,
were expended in ,purchasing votes fin- the hero. bribers•
was carried on as openly as the sale of trierehandiSe. The
ordinary price of a Jackson vote was from three to five
dollars; in some instances a Lionel of flour, and in
others a side of leather. Those were the grades of bounty
among the poor, but iu other cases higher game was at-,
tempted.—Republican.
(From the Philadelphia Gazette, Nov. 1.)

Ms SSA OH Ussrrs-In 2(18 towns the votes were—for
Adams, 25.971. For Jackson, 5,932.

Vißcisin—According to returns from all bat thirteen
•ountiee, Jackson has received 22,72'4 votes. Adams,
10,517. Some of these returns are un-otficial.

PENNSYLVANIA ELECTORAL ELECTION.
OFFICIAL.

Jackson ...... 101,652
Adams
50,848
Jackson's majority

Mr. Goulluru, the-----banister,Tias resigned his
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

MOs'!` SINGU LAR TRIAL

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Dec. IL

The following was given in ONLY A PART of our impression
LAST NIODT, in our SBCOND and THIRD EDITIONS.

COOPER v. WAKELY.
Mr. Lambert was gemerally•sitspecte,l, but I do not
know for what reason, to have .centributed the report. I
was asked at Lambere's respecting the operation, and I
gave the same account as Ido new. Mr. Wakely andsttlr.
'Lambert thought that the instrument passed between the
bladder and the rectum, but upon my oath they. did not
induce me to state so. lltany persons, however, thought
so. A • Mr. Whittaker was also present at this. con-
versation. • I drank tea with them, there was.. no
model of any of these parts introduced to us. I
went some tine after that to Wakely's house and re-
mained there for about ten minutes ; I cannot take on
myself to say whether the forceps passed between the bladder
and the rectum ; Wakely and Lambert gave good reasons
for making a man think that they did pass, in that way ;
I think that it did so paps in the first incision ; upon the
examination of the parts after death, Lambert put
his hand between, the bladder. and thee rectum, he
then took it up, and_ showed it to Doctor Ilodgskin ;
the Doctor said. that he did: not like to have persons,
. who had no bUsinesi 'at the Hospital; come there to
s tail preparations.—l did not Lear Dr. Hodeskin say to
Lambert, " Friend, thou did'st it thyself." I did not see
Lambert put his hand there;• but at Lambert's house that
was mentioned as a reason for the incision being between
the rectum and the bladder.
this witness having', occasionally hesitated in his
answers.,
Sir Ltatze SVA KLETT said, this operation of getting
answers is so painful, that I ...hall discontinue it.
Witness—lt is by no means painful to me, I assure you,
Sir. (A laugh.)
Ou his re-examination by the defendant, the witness
declared that the defendant bad never induced him to give
any particular evidence on this trial. •
Mr. James Lambert examined by the defendant-1
wit-
nessed the operation in question, and furnished you with
the report, declaring upon my honour that it was true,
but that it was rather en understatement than an overstate-
ment, I now repeat that the report is true in substance,
Rod I know of no material inaccuracy in it, but have since
heard that Mr. Callaway held the, stone in his hand, and
not is a forceps. The subject was in my opinion a favour-
able one for operation. The operation lasted for more
than an hour. The improsion on my mind was that the
knife bad not entered the bladder, because there was not
she usual gush after the incision. After stating the
particulars of the operation, the witness said that he
was present at she post. racrtem examination... The
suftect was lying on, the floor of the Demonstrator's
room. The morbid parts, were removed. I asked
for them, and they were shersere to me in the pre-
sew* of several of she. pupils.. .My attee497l was of course ,
directed to see whether, any difficulties wnii/.4 present
themselves in the morbid parts. I found the preataite.
gland rather larger. 'thin. (mai- .I saw on the. halt
Aide of the gland a smallish oblinue cut. The parte
arronad- the neck' of. the ',ladder appeared to be bruised.
tan the under part of the meek of bladder, there was a
eingtdar appearance. It was a small pitetrusion
.ahout the size- of the tip .01.. my finger. (:-..ht .examigi,og
farther, I fogad that my finger-pamed up with the greatest
uaodaty between the blatiderind•,the 'rectum. On any so-
learn aat.h, I did not at* theslightest force in•presing my
finger between the bladder and-the rectum ; neither, did I
break down any structure, -Whileeti-rgotr.:.ehewing this to
stile pupils Doetac fiedgskin. tame tap ;Ober, angrily,
end said, " I wish people- who- have no beteinese
here would not : :mine 1.46 things about far-1
and added that
..snuattiody hest broken down the
fungous appearenee> on the neek of . elee bladder. I 'fol-
• lowed, and assured Leim. that had 'Merely .e.,eeeprined the
preparation, and that ;2.4 been for a coneiclerabie; tinte
about that - ho4ital, and wite iticapable of doing any I
thing o 'improper. • Dr. • llodgeleig lend that it was
not a deep peritoneint, indeed that 'there was oa-
thiag remarkable shoat it. I remember otseryieg 'to
Mr. Key that from the reoult of this operation hbrinterit,
extent did not appear to be tit for operating where the peri-
toneum was deep. Mr. Key instantly replied "if you
say that the peritoneum of this patient tn.!' deep, you
know nothing about it;" I Saw nothing in any pea of
the preparation to aceount for the thelay in the extraction
of the stone. I newer Saw a peritoneum in which I was
unable to reach the bladder with the finger. My impres-
sion was, that in the case ire question the bladder gold
have been reached with the finger. I did- nct see in the,
neck of the bladder, or the prostate giend; an incision like
the form of the gorget which was used in 'the operation.
If the gorget did not pass into the 'bladder, it was
likely to pass between it and the rectum. I have
never seen the gorget passed betiveeo the bladder and
the rectum by a 'skilful operator, qf by a person having
any pretensions to skill. The gorget was used sub-
sequently, to both the knivea. -The knives were not
used more than once each. I cannot speak troths cutting
gorgobeiug introduced morn than once. I never saw an
operation performed in a similar manner. The operator
did not appear to be in a Oaten( Self-pOieessiort, tdo not
believe the patiesit could recover under such an operations.
1 do not think Mr. Cooper a good operator, but I once
saw him tie the sithclaViac artery in a very skilful manner.
That is sot a difficult operation to a man who has any
nerve. Ido uot think Mr. Cooper's abilities are adequate
to the office of surgeon to Ouy'e Hospital.
Cross-examined by 'Sir J. Sceoteerr—l am a surgeon,
and have been in the peofessiou 13 years. I cdosider
myself more competent than .Mr...l3ranshy Cooper to
perform an operatiou like this. - I began attending
the Hospitals about six years ago, and was admitted
a surgeon about three years since. This is not the
test communication I have made to the Lancet; I
have Leen a contributor for some years; I received eneolu-
tent 'for My contributions; did not derive a larger hie
come froM it than from' try' practice as a surgeon;
I ant intimate with the editor ; T need to" receive 'eight
guineas a month, and afterwards was paid iii proportion to
the matter . published. I cannot say exactly 'when I first
began to contribute towards the Lancet; I think
it Wei about a year ago. I should think that the
circulation of the L"'eee Poiler, was worth about
five or six thousand a year. I hetieve M. Wakely prac-
tises as a surgeon occasionally. believe tk,e.principal
inemitie of Mr. Wakely is derived-from this war k, I
never reeollect Mr. Bransby Cooper turning me out ef
the room; (upon further consideration- the witness
said) I remember one occasion at ---flu Y's Hos-
pital when Mr. Cooper address-4
me, but there was
so much noise that I Could not ten what he said. I ite,ew
that' at some dinner there was something said. I think
with
objected to something, when he came front the chair,
th
I en
others, and thought I had disturbed the harmony,
left the room, because I felt there was a strong faling
against the measure I had adopted. I. cannot exactly Agy
when this was, it might be.two.years ago. I don't remem-
ber tIOV quarrel that 1 had with Mr. Cooper. I never remelt-
her Mn-. Cooper saying, that I should leave the room
ear ho would, unless some apilegy were made ; I believe
zhe word 'hats" in this work is applied to the Hospital
seereeorie ; I reeallect some inquiry being made by Mr.
Cooper in regard to the word as applied tv Ulna; I think
that occurred at St. Thomas's Hospital, but I gleiek it
was not in the leetute-room. I can swear most positively
that I do not rotoilect Mr. Cooper cafing that unless an
apology were made, tither he or I mute lose the room. I
remember using the sward " bat" once its zeteeking of a
trial, hut / have no hesitation in saying totl
applied that to no one in panticular. said to.
2lrtinehy Cooper that I did not intend it to be per-
emu'. I do not retuember saying that I would make
him repent it ; I *wave that to the best of my re-
collection. lam a man .of warm feelings, and may
have said many things in the couraeof my' life which I du,
not recollect, but Ido not believe lei., ssi4 this. I don't
think it impossible that
I could,- but,L leave pro such im-
prevsion on my mind. Upon my oath, I never rezo,et
]raving amid such words. I ant of OPinion thet the alte" ,
was some time in January; 1 tkjok it was some time'
about Christmas. I have never hem hot to one dinner,
and then I went away, hut was notturned ,east. I carried
this revert to my friend Mr. Wakelyr and this waa.o.le of the
weekly contributions. This fist" within the eight guinea, pier
moni.h. I an: not aware that there fiver' one or two ex.
pressions in it more severe than he thottattt ;it Fight to pub-
lish. I assured him shay were true. The krtteipal alte-
rations, I believe, n hieh Me, Wakely made, were A,A,
speet to the time. I believe I state el it was rather more thgo
an hour, and Mr. %hely said he woui4 rather be under the
mark. Ido not remember any oilier &hero:was. I have
not seen the manuscript singe it was written; I,did not
write the next attack on Mk. ,Coecter; nor any part of it,
The first time it wits thought the koifereeehed the bladclexl
saw no gush of urine, mid I cogeidered *hata fair ground for
judging that the knife had nut ,reethedehe Madder. I did
not see any gush of urine at any time efterwerds. `l'.lle
only way 1 have of explaining this ia, that when the
knife was thought to have touched the bladder
1 observed no gush of urine, and my impeession was that
it bad not entered the bladder. I believe a sinall.opening

may have been Inade into the bladder, through which a

small quantity of urine oozed. I undereh:6'od Mr.
Cooper to say, " Give me my uncle's knife ;" but. I
cannot swear positively to that. The hist irnpres-
'ion on my mind was—" My uncle's knife," or,
" Sir Astley's," but I will not swear to it. I did not
say in' my report, nor did I intend to convey such an
impression, that Mr. Bransby Cooper had murdered the
man, but I intended to convey the impression that the
patient had lost his life for want of skill. I lamented
the occurrence, and did not consider that this ririod was
an important one- to get . reputation, in addition
to my eight guineas. I did not think ..it-- a
subject for ridicule. I put the note at the bottom. I
heard the man say so. I saw the man before the opera-
tion was performed. I cannot say whether Mr.- B.
Cooper wished the operation to' be performed or not.
I urn not aware that Mr. Grainger has a cheap theatre
near Gay's Hospital. I know he has a theatre there, which
I believe to be as respectable as any. No. lecture I be-
lieve has been given upon the model of the operation, for the
purpose of proving Mr. -B. Cooper's want of skill. I have
been present when subjects of this kind have been demon-
strated by Mr. Pilger, but I believe not with a .view to
this case. I believe Mr. Grainger knew of the case;
I cannot confine myself to the mode ; I believe there was a
dead subject there; upon my oath I do not think it was
given with reference to this case; I have heard both Mr.
Grainger and Mr. Pilger speak upon this, but I was not
present at these lectures. I have before stated that I was
present when a demonstration was given. I have shown the
model to persons in the room. But I have not demonstrated
the parts to persons in the room with a view to this
case. I have been to the room and examined the parts
repeatedly, but I believe not for auy improper purpose,
but knowing that I was to give evidence in this case,
it was with a view of refreshing my memory
with respect to it. I believe witnesses on both sides
were present, and I explained the disease to them. I
again repeat I went with a view to refresh my own me-
mory. I bad met Mr. Wakely there on one occasion,
he was not present when I was making these exhibitions.
I declare, to the hest of my belief, that Mr. Wukely was
not there during the demonstrations. I heard him, I be-
lieve, explaining to some of the pupils that some of them
were to be witnesses. 1 don't recollect it being said that *Mr.
ransby Cooper had murdered the man as much as if he
had cut his throat with a knife; but I cannot swear that
either one way or the other; 1 think I can swear such
words were not used; I may have expressed myself in
the dissecting-room, that the patient had lost his life by
the operation. j think I said that not more than two days
ago, Mr. Grainger did not lend his lecture-room to me. My
motive for going there was, that I W 45 pppil. I believe
I have heard four or five times lectures and explanations
given to persons who are to he witnesses in this case. But
have ;ever heard them given at Mr. Wakely's hcuse,
nor. have they a,zer been given at my own. There
were some giren at the theatre ; I think by a Mr. Pearl ;
I stood closo to the operator.
Cross-examined by Mr. Wakely—l am operator to the
Middlesex Hospitals. Complaints were made against me
for reporting to the Lancet. No other charge was
made with respect to me. I was ejected from
the institution in consequence of sending communications to
the Lancet.. I had never sent a report from the Hospital be-
Atre I was ejected from it. I never heard Mr. Wakely or
tiny fr4y:say any thing with respect to the theatre. I did
not eonsider tha; Mr. Grainger was lecturing to any wit-
nesses- fur_ the purpc.sq pf• imputing any thing to Mr. 1

Cooper. I consider they were ielAires to the class. " I be-
lieve the model was made public in the yard 4/ the theatre.
The east produced in Court was, in point of fitet-; taken
from a 4,ai in the Lecture Room.
Me..4lexander Leo examined by the defendant—l am
acquainted-with Air. Bransby peoper, but never spoke to
him. I saw tita operation, 4 waki 4 tedious operation,
performed in the usual way.
Defendant—When you say in the usual way, do icit
Ryan in Mr. Cooper's usual way ?—I never saw him per-
barn} an operation before. I have been present at
from fifty to a 11,pE.4rtul operations in lithotorny ; some have
lasted for a quarter, or ke:ir, that was reckoned the
contracting the bladder ;,I was senite 4iatancc from the
table, and could not distinctly see what instraizZi,ka,
C'Oop.a.r used ; I am not sure whether the forceps was in-
troduceS at kLe fret incision ; he made a second incision,
and again introduced >y forceps ; I did not observe any
thing particular in the manse?' or demeanour of Mr.
Coo ate' at the former operations which ".cfi;nessed either
in this tnin,t,y or Paris, I never saw the guFgeft inaro-
(Mead after the 1442, drips been twice used. Ido not
think that the operation laste4 I-411y, an hour, though it
certainly lasted from half an hour to Oita, F)}4mteo.
41" ff the operation scientifically performad?...4 I.7guld
hesitate befog: 7 gave an opinion on so important a subject.
Which do yoU itai4; blr. Cooper or Mr. Callaway, the
better surgeon ?—Cerfainiy Ws. Callaway..
j':Mr. Bransby Cooper, in your op:.p./on, fit to be a
surgeati At Guy's Hospital ?—I should not4-...;_0 r.'ive an
opinion on t'bit 47.40ject.
Is the report in 4.e ,Lancft correct ?—Generally so,
but I think that wind VatiteCtskl were not used although
inserted in the Lancet.- I rather til;a- 14 form of the
report objectionable.
Cross-examined by Sir JAMES SCARI.E'irf Love L-eeo
a Clerk before I commenced the study of surgery. I
was also a potatee merchant. (A laugh) I performed
operations in lithotomy on a dead subject, but never on a
living one. When zo operation is being performer), no
One can see or explain the dii,fienities which present threw-
aziees so well as the operator. Circumstances which ap-
pear angriguous to a bystander might be easily and satis- '
factorily explailicil by the operator, and particularly when
the operation Is li.e.i't4,zned by the touch, and nut by the
sight. It would be wail rash to pronounce on the
incompetency of an operator' without first asking
him as to time circumstances of time aa„-.„ Next to the
operator in lithotomy, the person who holds the is the
bed subject. I have read the report in the Lancet, 14;4
must sa),, that it is a most unprofessional one. I raw '
only a small rlicamarge from the wound, it might he partly
urine and blood or i.V.0041 alone. It sometimes happens
that the stone is laid on the felt/aof the bladder which uun-
traets3 Ou the approach of the iustr.i4A;lit.•
Ile-exaQined—When you state that the opeifgAr is the
best judge, how 4,:,) you think that the operator cats i, ta
best judge, when, eh is, tins case, he declared that lie did
not know what'earthly dilticuity there was ?—lt is pos•-
slide that a skilful man may fail at lice time to discover
the cause of the difficulty.
Mr. Thomas Briton examined .by the deiet4a.gt—l
saw the operation performed, and the report in Lit;
Lancet is substantially correct. He used a great number
of instruments. lie 4.1. first lost his self-possession, but
afterwards recovered it in s,;:t.v..e degree. I saw six or eight
operations in lithotomy ; some lasted its long as five or
ten riliantes. The operation in question iaated_q,bout an
hour, during which great violence was used. I neacc,r,Say/
the cutting gorget n.s‘ed in the, same operation with time
knife. The stone in this case was rather small, and Mr.
C°@Fe, said that he could not diace.y.er the reason for the
operation
_la- ing so long. On the. whole, fdo not con-
sidtc.r that the operatien was scientifically performed,
141 Zasss'eTirtei,nieftrol Immy
tlier,!it.ii,Pezt.tocx, but nothing mate-
Penjamin Harrison, the Treasurer ,of Guy's Hos-
' pital, exaliained by defendant_l have held the nifi,ce for
31 year's. I'hWie the minute-book of the Hospital,-
Grivernors who voted for Mr.
tairimg the naines,of the
Bransby Cooper; tiltav,e Ilao the preparation of the parts
of the deceased. Attr,
-.ni.4y:,99fre„r was apprentice to
his uncle, and
his '3-L"="r° ,V.Pr.eti 41,4 a year and
a half beforelie was appointed' 0 hill; 41;1144,..1. He
4d tat;
eolfe-c:ldayeOrlislau2ltsing
L'4,!,,4way assistant surgeon. - There
c00pe.1,,, „4,41,,t.ed his office of surgeon on that day. it
sus eon to
waa appointed
faaown.tiline_e_
Astley was
time new/4
wasil Hnnosspnintaulu,nacnerini Deinrt.
in
mere that such elections
Wer,elo take place, nor is such netim:e ever
Mr. Bransby
Cooper i-..t.:44.1g been ati apprentice at the th,4ire!,
and
constantly under tile observation of the Directors, it Waelati;
deemed necessary that la dtPilld r°d.
ie _%vernors.any testimonials.
am not a surgeon, nor are sur
11.9. you believe that persons not educe.r,e4.ki.tbeynoical
profession i,f.p be the best judges of the capahilitiea
dicail skill P-11 stuityjd not pretend individually to give 4A,
opinion, but the Govereave had constant opportunity of
ive. lijpg of his abilities. Tim fir: Hess, after going into
a 4146[1 of the elections which
lately taken
~_p chosen
place, in e.ye,:y instance the party wri
:
being either a re4'amtiye or an apprentice 0f iii' As4e2Y
Cooper, said that Mr. Brawl* „Conger was not chosen in
preference to 311.. Callaway tin •• _he happened
, be time
IA Sir A. Cooper. We selected Mr. CcopeiPePPe
lie appeared tau pe the fittest person for the sitastimn kb.*
..vacant.

Do you mean to my Mr. Cooper is a better our-
>;'.(V Pan Mr. Callaway ?
I GO 'At pisli to express an opinion 4q 4? delicate a '
question,

Then why say that cooper was the fittest person
a aft tWQ?

liePi.it lye had selected a surgeon Ovi epuld also have
attended to th!ra sprgical sapid- recently estat~i Guy's
hospital.
If you had merely wanted a surgeon, without refer-
f!nceto the school, which of the two gentleineu would you
have Ape° ?—I do not thiak it ueceasary to say what we
would have dope in any supposed case. It is quite enough

,to answer what were our motives in the particular instance
that occurred.

Lord TewreauEN--The witness has given a most
proper answer in my opinion, and I must sty that I
disapprove of this Mode of instituting comparisons between
the skill or merits of two prokssional gentlemen.
The witness in answer to a question whetlitr St. Thomas's
and Guy's hospitals, were not united until recently, said
that the illedical School was at the latter Hospital,
and the Surgical School at the former one. So far
they were united. Upon being asked the cause that led
to the establishment of the surgical school at Guy's
Hospital, he said that the story was a long one, and would
.in his opinion take up the time of the Court unnecessatily.
The examination as to that point was not pressed any
further.

Cross-examined by Sir J. SCARLETT—Mr. B. Cooper
was a -.demonstrator under his uncle, and gave great
satisfaction in that rapacity. He was recommended to be
appointed as. surgeon by all the surgeons of the Hospital.
Sir .Astley Cooper.did not know that it was intended to
elect his nyhew until the circumstance was communi-
.cated to him by witness. Sir Astley Cooper did write
to witness at the time, but Sir Astley had nothing to do
with the arrangement of appointing his nephew. 'Witness
knew that -the plaintiff had been a pupil at the Norwich
Hospital, and had been with the army in Spain, (luring
tsto campaigns, and•went with his regiment to Canada,
but in. the intermediate period he had been improving
himself at Edinburgh. -Me subsequently became appreii-
tice to his uncle. Sir A. Cooper is a surgeon of the first
eminence and practice, and his nephew had the advantage
during his apprenticeship of witnessing his uncle's practice.
Witness has heard that the Norwich Hospital is celebrated
for operations in lithotomy.
Re-examined by Mr. Wakely....Mr. 13. Cooper was
president of a Society in Edinburgh. That WM before be
served his apprenticeship. .
Several preparations were here brought into. Court and
were examined by

Mr. Alderman Partridge, who then deposed that he
could sec a large opening in the neck of the bladder, but he
could not speak positively about. it without further investi.
gation.
Mr. Wakely then said that he had closed his case.
The CHIEF JUSTICE then called upon Sir J. Scinurrr
to state the case far the plaintiff.
Sir JAMES asked his Lordship if it would be convenient
to go on at that late hour (seven o'clock). He had some
witnesses to call, and he thought it scarcely possible that
the cause could he concluded that night.
The CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that be might state his
case to-night, and hoped he would remember that to-mor-
row was Saturday.
Sir JAMES SCARLETT said he was aware of that, and
Grat pp inconvenience would result from it as the case would
be over in good Lisa, to-marrow.

The CHIEP JusTica asked if it was impossible
to close to-night.
Sir J. SCARLETT said he should certainly examine
witnesses, some of the first surgeons in Lon-
don, bpt, as his Lordship might conceive, that aftei
what had passed he should not examine many.
The Court was then faijopmpl:

CONTINUED THIS DAY,

To-day the interest in this ease appeared as great
as yesterday. By eight o'clock the crowd round
the Hall doors was very considerable, , and as time
advanced so it increased in density. The officers,
howsver, e4opted a course much more calculated to
afford facility of admissie4 to those whose duty .it
was to be present in Court : they kept the crovvd
at the outer doors, and until the Jury, Counsel, and
witnesses were admitted, those who had assembled
mprely from curiosity were not allowed to force
their passage. The rittmher of eminent surgeons
was equally great as yesterday,—among the,pa we
observed Sir A. Cooper, Doetors Bahington, sell.,
Addington, Bright; and Johnstone; Messrs. Green,
Kay, Callaway, Travers; Tyrrell, and Brodie.

_ .
_After. the Jury appeared, at 20 minutes before
10 ck'clock,'Sis .1, Spa4ett was about to addresu the
Jury, when one of the Jurors begged to be allowed
to put a few questions to Mr. Lambert.
Mr. Lambert was then called into the box, when
the Juror said that_ he understood Mr. Lambert to
say yesterday that the cause which rendered the
first of the forceps into the bladder dif-
hpolt 6a account of the !first it?cisipn not being

Mr. Larnhert!—f state that I could accopnt for
it only in two ways; either that u very 411101 inci-
sion had been wade, or that the knife had tipt
tered the bladder at all.
The LEARNED JUDGE then read his notes of the
eviaettc*e pf thip witness.
The same 4rOr.-7I wapted to know whether the
pad-7110rieni examination was matte hisfare pr after
Mr. Lambert furnished the defendant with the re-
port Mr. Lambert—After it. ,
Juror.,,-Wr. Lambert. stated that there was a
small projection on the hoi!je of the Wadder, which
appeared to him to be a little larger ;hap the Op of
his little finger. Now,- I want .to know, wheilier
this
,aiiaggal projection or enlargement could not by
po.ssiloility,„kaye occasioned the first difficulty in in-
pawing the forceps? Mr. Lattibert—Certainly
not, proo-ijcil that the Apt po?) p) ;44.-t in the
y ipiling; • •
tiot tl/4; projection haveFct oesiPnem
the.yiekling, rather than t le gush opt of the bladder
lvhen the .cut- was. made? Mr. Lambert-4..tlijnis.
nvt. ' . .

Sir J. SpAtiwry wished to put a few questions
ie had neglected. yeatertlay.
Lord TENTERDEN desired th t thq might be corn-
niunicated through the Court.
: Sir J, SeARLETT wished to' know whether M.
1.0,1)4rt had eorninurticated to the Morning Herald,
Or Ale any report of this on or before the 29th
March ? Mr. Laa-Aiirert7r-Pertainly not, nor do I
know how they got Will our,
Sir,.J. SCARLETT-1 wish to ash whetinef y,9,4,c1;re
,aware that notice did come out in these new'spaperp
respeAting this operation ? Mr. Lambert--Isawit
in the 7iii4l, ut I did not see it in the Herald.
Mr. %Vakely here kijAled to know whether M.
Lambert had the slightest re-ei:?.1) to believe that
these notices were transmitted tiirougia
Ilir LoßDsiliP also enquired whether 'he itnev
fhiti they as,,er,!kvAnsmitted ? Mr. Lambert—l do not.
Sir I. scom,gT.T. tkeß. r,ose and addressed the
Jury as follows d oigku mu, Lordship,
Gentlemen of the Jury, the time bas a 4 kiai? a,.'-
tired when the plaintiff is entitled, according tt?' ihp
form of Pioceedings in this place, to lay before you
the grounds on whi,M be seeks redress for one of the
most injurious attacks
.trpop I;if fame and fortune
tliot okir #ppeare,d j`ii a Court Of .7ust;iev,?i7.ented by
falsehood rand xuAilee; 'been
,putt
his defence, though 6' is tih% party
complains,;and though he seeks ti:r
hands, such is the fate of human affairs that during sig
satire day he has been placed upon : his defence as
if she kal hepn indicted for a criminal charge, and
up to thi4s have no reason that I am aware.to
know of whet it is 1;1a e:otkptlikitkvz_ unless, perchance,
you have read it in the E4rtenvig;F:aelts 7yatertlaY,
furnished with a curious exactitude--forthAed, -no
doubt, by the defendant or his attorney---furnisher
wi,cl?out any' antidote or explanation, giving to
that proeeedipg, of which the plaintiff complains, the
widest posiibti circit4ation, striking therefore still
ideeper into his bowdi l:oc 'injury 'i;e has received.
ti,entkßep, Jook at the ista:terla pi.i'oceertiiipp
this day a? 4 yy,fterday, and II venfure to say
that they furnish, j R,vgry
grounds for grave and TAegtiblo. trot
my business, Gentlemen, to complain of the for*
/91 ,law, or of the practice in Courts of Justice, I
submit, p every subject does, to the rule
Lby whieTi we bound, but in a par-
."
1) 1.6
case may e. ert to sag-
est? he* maprttiiraie foi: an
attac.ki. by 4 gr,Osi an trAlietiiatbel;ihat he
have all the zeal'
his accusation, and when that t,as 34144,' lte. is
put upon his charge. I mean to hear the ateliS.3-
vQN vtinst him, for I have no doubt you all feel that
are how in
you judgment, not upon what repa-
ration shall be Made roan in-ured man for ogre of the
basest calumnies any man earfeiiirijAain ofp,byt Whether
big. Cooper is not a party unworthy of filii"sittiati6i.,
i~h
.hats contrilntted to shorten a man's life, and
who {fiat skill and kttowledge of his profes-
sion, which no man has ever daN4 49upt who

had any skill or knoWledge himself. I have some
reason to complairrof the fate that has attended my
client—that when he,entered upon the threshold and
sanctity of this Court, he meets the sword of the as-
sassin; that before he has had time to seek redress, the
wound is made deeper and deeper into his side,
that he is traduced, that his fortune is dissected.in
the manner you heard yesterday, and now you come
with minds, no doubt, prepared to hear what it 'is
he complained of, and 'what it is you are ,called to,
give a. verdict on. Gentlemen, lam no enemy to
the periodical Press, far from it, ugh I have never
flattered it, and will never do it ; though I will
say the example of this proceeding has given it a
triumph and an interest which it .never had before.
Allow me, therefore, to enter now upon my case,
and suspend, if possible, the doubts you entertain,
for they can be but•doubts, whether Mr. Cooper ie.
*the object which yesterday it was exhibited to you'
that he was. He is a gentleman who has an honour
he has reason to be proud of, a connection with Sir
A. Cooper, my highly honoured and eiteellent'friend.
I shOuld think it one of my greatest privileges if I
could claim that connection with him which Mr.

Bransby Cooper does.

In early life, as soon as his profession was finally,
chosen, Mr. Bransby Cooper became a pupil at the
Norwich Hospital, the most distinguished, with the

exception of those in London, for this operation of
lithotorny. He served with diligence in that hospi-
tal for nearly two years. He then came to Lon-
don, he was admitted a pupil of Guy's Ho,pital,
where he continued fora year and a half, nearly two

years, when, as I hope I may toe allowed to say, and.
I hope I shall offend nobody by saying it, that his
merits, as well as his manners, recommended him

to that notice by which he was appointed Assistant-
Surgeon to a . Regiment of Artillery, and . went
abroad in 1813, and was present in every battle till
that of Thoulouse-.-that grand effort which was the
basis of the peace in 1814. His first exhibition of
coolness -was in .operating on the field of battle,
Under the roar of cannons, and exposed to'dtinfer.
His experience as a surgeon was known in that held
where amen requires both confidenceand talent,and he
had the opportunity of showing that talent which was
the ground of his honourable relation's wishing him to
pursue that line for which his abilities rendered hits so
peculiarly eligible,. and in which if he pursued with
the interest and talent he had exhibited, he had a
prospect of attaining great eminence. He went to
Canada and served nearly a year in the last un-
happy war in which we had the misfortune
to engage with ottr friends in AmeriCn. When
that terminated he was sent to Edinburgh,
and was admitted there as a student;
and there he received all the education a man could'
receive as pupil. He was placed in the high situa-
tion of President of a Society, until he quitted it,
He bad it open to him ;o phecise What lute he
thought fir. He might have taken his degree, and
established himself as a physic:imp-1e had the
example of his illustrious uncle in his view, one of
the most distinguished as well as the most prospe-
rous, and which he thought proper to pursue. Sir
Astley Cooper was the surgeon of Guy's Hospital ;
_ _

he had been the .pupil- of Mr. Cline, a man
educated in the same school ; he became bound an
apprentice to his uncle in 1817. During that pe-
riod his aSsidnity was 'unretnittinv. j haye a right
to say so, trom the evidence of that excellent and
honourable man, who gave his testimony yes-
terday, and who was intended to be insulted,
who stated that his conduct was honourable

to biamelf qt 4 #atilifactory to all aropncl him,
Sir Astley Cooper made him his demonstrator
of anatomy. Sir A. Cooper, who gave distinguished
lectures there found him a valuable assistant, which

led him to obtain acquaintance with all the most ab-
struse.parts of „the profession, and had an opportu-
nity, ,whiqh every man does net possessi to become
bye and bye of the same farce and the same success
as his honourable relative. He did more than that.
Sir A. Cooper, whose practice has been probably
more extensive, for a number of years, than any
other surgeon in the world, called by all sorts of
persons to perform the most difficult operations, and
whq never, no those who linow laim cmi say, qllowed
the call of the pqqr tq !le disregarded, who-bestowed
as much in humanity as for gain; S,ir A Cooper
buyino daily and !lightly requisitions, was obliged to
do that %%444 eye!), pprsop if) llis extensive prv-
tic° must do, namely, have a gemp to assist
him when he was called upon to one place of emer-
gency, that his patients might not want him in an-
other. Sir A. Cooper found in that nephew one
of the ptteq, persoqs bassist hint and was able,
according to the statements of that most eminent
man, to discharge the most important duties,
he himself front the impossiblijty of beingin tap
or three ?Ives at the same time, was forced to
employ an assistant. gent)emen, do not suppose ,
such an employment p4lt by the rpsult of favour,
the surgeon who 'employs an aosivant for that',
purpose, for his own honour and interest, io
obliged to employ a competent man. He cannot
do otherwise. Consider for a moment what situa-

tion Sir 4. Cooper wpf!ld he placed in, if, on your
sending for him to perform 41tricot pper4o99, 494
p nth!*him otherwis'e eripe,o-0 at the time, con rider the
• sitilatian in which he wonhi hate hcen placed, had he
tent you for his substittjte? a person whorn yOu found
incompetent, or thought so. Sir A. Copper Wotild have
been ruined in practice us well us in reputation. There-
, fore he had a right to say, not by his education only,
! Litt by i. 44 Pest' testimony which Sir Astley bore
to-his neplie%44l,lleSa yii.(leeveity, , that that fitness
and capacity are establisbed beyond alt dßui:it on the
most substantial proof. Gentle Men, his apprentice-
ship expired in 1823. He had had at that time consi:
dertiblp experience and:great practice. - fle.becanie
ri NUrgeop awn a!Tount, still continuing, how-
ever, to remier aSPWanse:.yhen hip uncle e: aired ir.
What happened at tikiri !Itte:
blishment, about which for tho present 'say 697
thing—highly useful, and of .the greatest 4tiv4nr
tage to the 'poor; the individuals connected
with which, the Governors, upon whose character
no impedkitneni, wap ever made, until this scanda-
lous and infarnOuS' publieUtinn, ti1a.14,'54 it expedient,
for the advantage of their charity, to estabrish
tichool of Anatomy, as well as that 'WhICh existed
,Pmtr.aa',4 They had a right.' to cl6' so
having one sQ, hq is ti 4 dreis,-unless he defies
all decency and common senso;l4coitplain.rijnie,:=S
because they thought in their own hospital, with the
consideration of illustrious surgeons, it would be well
(1,? this school, who is it dares to complain
Viet Viliey di* Ac;.- <:,lvertise, in the newspapers, and
'114? stirtte inforriation` from the .T.F.vrt where they
121,1• letthe' Ca-filberts ape! the
'NVidiefyc orm-giii‘rBinit
dark placer( to have been tisalle.
Hospital, It is not from the school of Cline, of Cooper,
of-Green, no, nor even Mr. Callaway himself, that
we ought to elect surgeons; no, it is from the
Iri.epapero ?r; the shape of the Lancet, that
.yon opgq -cwtp..jeu in;ort4tipri eh such a
point. rt is is the i.FOO'd 'lhttt i-ouA, deep
into his breast,. his dignitY':lntlr WOOL disrei.
garded, the immense circulation of his work has
been disregarded, it hat been pond unnoiced
Guy's Hospital. They have thought
e ea oat 01 itLit izi)l-1 body whom they considered
r! oat 01
I IC 13iu • • • -14 think; and
. o your. toiy )1)
,the jay' too,ttliiit 'the' 0.6 r tn'O ' ' ' use TS 0 I s ospi,
not AI ese11:0 to triad' atid-ex'ectit 'baittfiey
tboilght it rigl4 •pi.,cqrhi to`lcil4
of Cline and Cooper, lor litigeon t 4 sci}iply''t~g
vacancy ill the Hospital. But he was the
nephew of Sir A.stley Cooper. 'You will see
by and ...bye what the libeller says on that
sollect. You do not know it yet unless
-ow have p.m•spapers. He has attempted to
rave tMit %tefeli 'the aaire.,,ity to alley, that it
p ‘slr4pi2i A. Con e:
that Mr. Firansby.Coniel 444 find arft)ation,..With=
out regard to his merits. Has he proved that ? PI; has
proved the very reverse. You will Lubtless remember
Mr. liarrison's evidence, upon which I say nothing, fur
my.time is not yet come to.comment on that. I have
tutted t,llz y.story of Mr. Eiramby Cooper, and the pro-
gress that !atlas' made 114.; one of the sergeons of
Guy's Hospital, Whiell'Aas f; made him the wh-
im; of pity to some; but he disdains all pity; Ale

appeals to this Court for Its interposition, to protect him
front the malice of this Editor, and the enmity with which
he has attempted to surround him. It is now time, Gen-
tlemen, you abould know who the defendant is. I know
nothing myself of Mr. Wakely, nor should I have known
him except for the occurrences of yesterday. I could only
then note the extreme ignorance and folly which he poss
sensed. But lam authorised, Gentlemen, now to.say that
lie is as ignorant of his own profession as he is of good,
taste. I speak of him only from yesterday, for I never
heard of ally of his operations.. Ha is known, how-
ever, I believe, to the public, exclusively for publishing the
Lancet, which lie tells you. he established. In doing
that it was for the purpose of publishing lectures;
avowing that he dots it for the purpose of
-conunittiog plunder on the property of others, for the pur-
pose of assisting himself. What, Gentlemen, are we then
to hear it said, that if Mr. Clive, or Sir Astley Cooper,
or any other eminent burgeon, should compile a course
of lectures, and deliver them to the pupils of his own
class at the Hospital, who pay him for attendance, and
remunerate him for those labours, that a partieular,paper
shall rob him of all advantage,e and without his leave
make them public, so as to give to all the pupils
in the kingdom Who desire to. Study this art, all
the advantages this gentle/non thought he had himself
established ? That he shall injure hini and rob him,
and gain ten times more than be does himself, who
has been at all the labour of compiling such lectures,
and which would make it unnecessary 'for them to at-
tend, because all the advantages derived from the
attention of the pupil to those lectures May be gaiued by
reading this work? These contributions to the Landet
make it worth sor 60001. per annum. The Editor Las
himself avowed that it is a work fooaded on robbery and
plunder, and that he receives contributions from pupils at
the Hospital, whore he calls men of honour; men who
are induced to betray their honour, and who, by making
contributions, furnish that which ought never. to come out
but by consent of the lecturers, themselves. But he does not
stop here. He goes a step further, and lam glad
that .I am addressing gentlemen of education, and only wish,
every person to judge rightly of this, I ask whether, when
any mar, had taken great pains to get these lectures, which
he bad intended to. have published himself, what he
would base endured if a pupil, who had been allowed to
take important notes, was to furnish them to a gentleman,
who meant afterworde to commit them to press. Can any
man stiffer such a
_use as this to be made of his works?
suppose you
,had a written communication, what would
you say, if the person whom you had entrusted with the
key of your cabinet, . had, made extracts from it and
sent it to the Lancet? Would you not think that
man one of the basest of his kind ? And would you
allow him to enter your doors again? And yet these are
the contributors, these are the means by which he
rolls in his carriage and laugh* at the parties. I have
then, upon his own word, to say, that his work is a_scart
of literary raven, which lives by plunder, end holds up its.
head by the injury which it inflicts on others. Now,
gentlemen, what iti it he has done to Mr. Wallaby Cooper?
In order that I may explain that, I must, bye and bye,
subMit .to you, um !Mond to go through a pro-
cess certainly new ,te Me; hot don't believe that Mr.
Lainbett, whatever he may think of his own powers, or
the pupil of six mouths, or the demonstrator of Mr. Sloe's
sebool, same of whom are no longer pupils; don't believe
that you have from them wry information whatever upon it
The defendant has called but two witnesses who deserve
the least credit. One is Mir. ADM:gluon Partridge, . who
is a surgeon, and the :other is a ..surgeou, . and
also a dealer in potatoes. (A laugh.) I should
have thought that when I come to observe upon Mr.
Alderman Partridge's evidence, which l 4 slt ,do without
his peimiSsjon, that should have thought better of hime.
if thefe 144 not been something about him that induced
me to think he knew something of the defendant. I
should have felt a great deal more, had I not thought that
that gentleman had had the benefit of some other person's
assistance in putting his questions, who might I.llWf prevented
him from displaying his ignaronee, No doubt the editor and
imProye together; and depend on it, whatever
praiSe shall be due from Mr. Partridge to the, Lancet, he
will have it ; but he must allow me to state, that
it will not be any praise which the profession will
look at, coming from such a publicetion. cri-
tical work of this sort, which roiaea a great deal of
personal ribaldry with ila cepArto of imam of surgery.,
11,Iihaltiry of thin descriptipti will, no doubt, have some
iyeight with the minds of the vulgar, but with peo-
ple of team ning and of honour, it readers it more
coutemptible. Every man who contributes to that
work is celebrated in it. Every one who does not is
abused—and be will get cut down by the .anect.,7,-by
the Lainberts—the Wakelys—antl tb? yityug pupils; and
they will be lifted up in it- ip superiority of tlie'pupils of
Mr. Cooper, Air. Travers, and all the others who are
oleo of such Geutleineu, there is a
certain privilege which belongs to this hid profession,_
it is something that is better felt than apainerl;-,and
the map that does not feel it will not be capable of ap
predating the 4rguloent address to you.. In the ordinary
traffic of life, called commerce, there is a plain course of
dealing of 'simple integrity, that marks the line between
honesty, and the meaning of it is well understood by every
man. But in the practice of a liberal profession there is,a
f,.vrtain feeling of bogotir which Ilet:ords a gentleman,
4P4 which a gentleinao only coo feel ; which rens
dere it put sordid, but which gives it a character
which belongs to such . a profession a certain
dignity—a certain pride.which maker, a man feel that
profit is a secondary (object to him,..-that fame awl repo.
tation, awl imams of oddity, are its greatest rtAnunenda-
tiona—antl that every thing else is secondary. Either iu the
profession of the lacy, or the proles,ioo equally honomiable,
and, perhaps, equally useful,' or snore sir—that principle
is debased—that principle is destroyed, if a man finds that
it depends upon whether lie makes ciniceasions or ao tq
•

•
the FOior of the .ancef. If he finds that it depends
upon whether he makes useful cootrilmtiooa-,-that he
Ofould court the author, to acquire that fame whiCh before
was acquired by honourable competition and fair means; it
introdoces into the profession. a means of degradation that
ivoose§ liberty, and finally destroys it. What shall
you say !tow of the difie rent sitoatio4 'pf imgeoxls.....if it
this moment any of th4lonourable persons in that situa-
tiou were to tell you that all their reputation sues
ac-
quired by such means—all the esteem of the pub-
lic may ltuocked down, and a man, •if he has
pie Misfortf4!e to offend- !qr. Vl(akely, the Editor,'
or some contributor to the Lancer, although 4 man
may hive `that right feeling, and thoSe refined sen-
timents which would tit hint flir the honourable profes-
sion_ of a surgeon, yet still hiving offense I ihiS.person, he is
t? lie held forward to the pubtie nit qnwortll 4f the •sitpa-
tion Wll'iCb s. hiold if in "the law, us in every
.•
" 4 • '•
014.. e where persons are ernployed. in doing that whieh'eu
ahles them' to'kbfish their PeCuliar'effoits-Lif they were
not to alio); ih'o• fair eostuiefiti4 in a Court Of
Justice to determine who Is the Javowie which tlui POlic
should ettiploy ; but that it should be given before hand
by suppression and false representation, would not that des-
troy the honour of the bar ; and would it not tend to degrade
still move tIA honourable profession, if among themselves
persona' were'to'befound capable of malting reports of their
owb? Socha thing cannot befound In thd p'zrofeSsion to which
I belong. 'But it has an 'example' in :the' profession of
rildektve are treating to.alay; for you hate 110.
is'afa to` bg getrig bit eight gob-leas a
month, anti depend upon it Mr. *Lianberii gnue wifi'detiend
much more upon the fame he gets in that publication than he
will get from any other Honourable Member of that
profession. Such a course it is that degrades a profession
_such a course it is, that from my very heart and soul I
*nth such a pcofsssicn mild net be so tainted, I return now
tettlektimediiitatalijeultoifthe'faperationithichfilr.uCooper
• v 1
iitiPgibril*P 110 Is r(0.71,`f bOWei'lifte dfl or..
He has pelformad many operations for the stonern my at
Guy's Hospital. His successful operations have not been
reported,—l do not mean to say that with respect to
others of greater experience, or .who have performed
greater numbers of such an operation,--I do not mean to
contend foe. au 'instant that ne , a. greater.. spun
eniinp'butcl spi4tk ofttlilrAranaby 6orier, Who/ fronalhis
has"perfortned' many of •thc operations most
difficult anti coinpliei;ted;.-7" thia 'oper4tiiin 'of 'the one
;!
li especially.;; , Now, I shall endeavour to state to you
teas • .•
eticutarty vitt /011 are pet to under-
stand that I am giving you a lecture, Or St..,
more of the anatomy of the case than the course of
this proceedi4 rnal:en• it necessary I should be aware
&don, there W4s' 11' tame iahert tiiis
Vapprpc":k
aa tiott whs attended Withlahriostt certain loss of
/ire: I'V& improved' tqrgery of Modern' `times has much
improved tide consequences_ et ih44.; di aster, so thalthe
number of those who die, in comparison with those who
are saved, is very few to what it formerly was. &believe
it is generally considered now that the number dying is
about two in 15—that is, one to seven and a half. For-
wetly, they very rarely escaped. At one tune, al num_
hers were as Qua to four or fire, now it is one to seven and
p. 4alf dizordeir apinetinico attacks infants, and in
float furnik -V '4i4s -041 y Many
are of that tender age that the stone May hc fq-
tracted almost to a certainty without hazard. With
others the danger increases; but I believe that Mr. B.
Cooper has performed the operation on perhaps one of the
oldest men that ever suffered it—a person whose age was
b 7. The operation is never performed on Ws adult till he
himself feels that the pain he suffers, or the apprehension of

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the loss of life is greater than the risk of the tiperatiOne.
Every man must judge of that by his own feelings ;
something in the apparatus more terrible than ire the 01)'"
ration itself—soinethiug that operates on the wind
being the subject of it; and it is nothing but the extreineel'7
or the apprehension of loss of life,, or under the hope,
being relieved from it, that gives a party courage to gob'
mit to it. You may suppose, therefore, .that no euree'a
was ever called upon to operate unless under extreroirYgi
where the patient says._" I cannot live, I must die elide;
it ; the urgency is.so great that I call upon yoU fur ineteer
relief. All judgment is at an enel--you, must perform the
operetieu or I must die." What course is left but to per farm'
the operation? Now be it understood that the pitetial'a;
practice of different surgeons in some slight degree veri'b.
but they are ell employed for the sante end. It is not
province here to describe and remark upon the merits of
the different echoolee You have heard that the Frea";
hardly use any of the instruments that we do.. We u 55
the instruineuts.that we thiuk best, and those whieh.ere
calculated togiVe the leasepain and uneasiness to the ,
The filet operation, however, is to ascertain the easiatill ,
of the stone. This is done by introducing throng;
the urethra a sound—a small rod of steel ; this intrad"ct
through the tender passage finds its way into the bladill
Then by turning it about a little, if it encounters a hg`
substance, striking it with the instrument, theoperator heOf
the sound of it, and ascertains the existcnee of stone. Tltat
being done, then conies the operation. For the purpose of P. p
operation—when I state to you the practice, you will 0'
derstand me as stating it subject to any errors that n'e
be corrected by and bye—the patient is tied down in a"
simplest manner, an incision is then made is the perinetol
between the scrotum and anus. The finger is introduced into
the bladder, and it very often happens that where it is the @tee'
is thrown out in a moment without any other instrument'
In children the parts you are to operate upon do not 10 ,
froth the surface, and are easily reached by the
In proportion as the person becomes adult, the parts ell'
and therefore it is necessary, particularly, is adults, ill
instruments should be bad recourse to. No man .811°°
ever attempt to attend• aneoperatien of this kied.seitloo',
having a number of.instrunteritsmith
_He.weuld tie
most presumptuous. if be did. The eye u‘the oParat°‘
does not enable idea to see. in what situation the steno ti
placed—it is ell touch And leel-,cousequently a variety °I
instruments must be necessary ; and every w."-A
who attends as a surgeon knells ,that be is botal
to have all the instruments that are used in the school
surgery in whic,h, be has been taught. The first operati°°
is then to introduce again into the urethra this ,nuns
or staff. .Air. Kaye, a most eminent surgeon of
Hospital, has- been himself the inventor 'of the staff•-'
Ho, considers it highly useful.. Some use it, some do sot
That is mere matter What he calls b° e
staff is a_straight stick, not eurved, with a point. Of,
urethra is a long can
.which passes through`
what is called- the prosteree•:. gland, before it ea:.
ter*. Abe . bladder, the prostate gland i...
has a .communicationevith other parts of-animal life trim'
I need not allude to. But it is opened into:the bladder.'-
the ,Okpastoing the *tall. you penetrate the opening. into 1
prostate gland,'and inserted into the -bladder.fies
:end h.s a curve iu it which is passed in front, and lbeesrLl7.o
the legs of the patient;: and the toe of the curve is,. that Wile I
the operator ieuoduce* his .knife it toucher; the puior,
the curve. When the.point. pf , the knife is in the stall''
Alien knows he is in the tette direction of the urethra—'4o
he there. can get the eterostate,egland, and by ,bringi •
the staff forward, and altering. its position a little, 11
gets into ,tho bladder. Sir lunge- Scarlett then.
an to explain the mode of Operating at some lore,
If the forceps cannot find the stone then the 'sound is ins°
duce& through the. ,opeolog, and it ita, common prissti*°,.
if the stone vaimot.be felt, to try etoundeoe deseeeet force'
The stone -may be enfolded in the bladder, or go si
that it may be extremely difficult .ta get. at it. Than
operator has recourse to the seoopewhich is an instramt
like a tea spoon in its shape. .With this an erea-tiou it meat
t the stone, and thereby cause, it to fall, so that
maybe got at by the forceps. Now, it sometimes- hp.prs -
that there are cases in which the most skilful operator
baffled in his exertiorreto_reacla the stone, or to find out tr
poaitian of it, and where the Cause why its situ `
ton Can't' last be asceetained has been only dieoovore,,e
upon a post Inortem examination. A surgeon may ":
Convinced that the stone may be lodged emnewheree,.
but still in a position where he cannot reach it hy_er4.ll
nary means. In that case other means must be relm",ettele
to, and- a second incision may become aeoesetsrP
is the usual course of the operation, but I will come nil,.
to the operation in T./ration, which was performed by It
Bransby clooper. . 'I he man had been sent up from a pi:
rich in Sussex. Now there were eminent surgeons 91
Brighton, and it was therefore only foie to asereme
the case was one of great difficulty, ter the *pariah' Wee"'
not have gone to the expeorie of sending him to L9'"
don to be OperAted upon. However, he was sear!
the Hospital, and Mr. Bransby Cooper saw him.
thoughhe was a stoat man, with a hectic oempletiol'
Mr. Bransby Cooper, ascertained that his kidneys Waite'
a disordered state, and that it was necessary to, p,oeteePe.
the operation until this disorder sat titiztted. It was 41:d
cordingly postponed, until the agony be suffered rendic`te
the operetien no hanger preps; to be delayed, until iu isb;o.
it must be performed or the patient must die. 31r. CO
made an incision, anti there was an immediate flot7et,
ttrine.-e-not a gush—for under such circtunstauaea tin
ceold, ever take place, owing to the collapsing of the p;j
•
He then inserted his finger;but could only reach the pree
tate gland, and could not reach the bladder. This be er;e
Alf at the time. Feeling however, by his finger in the WO
gland, that the wound was in the right direction be PI
the forceps in to see if he had reached the bladder. 1,17.e.'
was most easily Iso be ascertained by the forceps, fig. Tee
forceps being slieped like a pair of se4benre, could esaili ,
expanded withio the Wale:. *IA if the Atone was is
ordinary eiteaeion, would easily lay hold of it; but thee'
peps could- not be expanded in a solid substance like
prostate gland. Mr. Cooper, however, could not find t.e,
stone; be had no idea even where it. was. The first 01,
was, that the previous indications- were tallacieese I.lle
that there was no stone - at all, and *A'. depot ye
very anNional es eny Helton might naturally ua ,
techO'ctiulStaleedie He then had the option to cal!.
flay instrtuneate ell round the Gladder, to feel for 17
atone, which would have reMilired force tit plaice a sec°,
incision ; he chose the iatteri and calling for Sir
coopee'e kpife hp 04.1.14ge4 the wound, and then et4a,l;.
tried the forceps, but without sue ens. He then thotili.",
he would ascektain with the sound if indeed there lee
stone, and then, upon withdrawing the sound the
point of that instrument struck the Ilene. VIII Inee
that the etotte lad, as it eyete, upon the upper part
jhmu, 119ilaccordipgiy it becime necessary to resort to
bent torcepps which, by means of its curvature, m'uc
touchthe slope bring it doWn.. The bin;
however, could not tugtih Chia scour, and what their
to be dope The only mode was to make a wound be
tbe prostate gland, large_enough for the forchps CO t,
intrOatic;d through it. Mr. Cooper then used the CIO
but not the blunt gorget. •It was false to say that ti
used the blunt gorget. He used the cutting genet Weme)
•
is like a prolonged scoop, and which has two advatatert, •;
first,,that of making the wound sufficiently large; 'tea
secondly, the Advantage of not being able to emake ice
large, for it cannot mike a wound beyondd-a specific !.10
Attording • to"all the I+s 1,1
mill lante k'*o'up.4'l4ige erPligh. taiiihnit the strit!iggiil
kireeps, while the abdomen. is pressed down;
catch the stone. 'Phis was the course adopted, oor
succeeded. It is perfectly, true that Mr. Cooper did_ety,
that he could not imagine what was the diffieri
of the case, but • when be bud discovered the e.olHe
may, 17,e had used 'ehe inuei ed eta. 1. (
trOnipt naeanc cli Atertioinitni 'The sane *as: '
f`. ' •
Ilattlat as i...werp epee etlie -the Pubis: of;
was no protruding end for the forceps to ley kohl:oily
therefore the form of the stone and its position !ce
ep
accounted for its not being caught by the fart ce
What passed eubsequestly? • That which
place after such n, treeretie, Feed rich isAitteltikic old
to be cnivied jutoieffeietii4-i4toiti 3norttirn exetnine.tionoe
jireherVation of the eiarta. In:the:emir= ee: thst,opelle,=
Ira Calliway had himself and 't [r.
4litted he men of likill)"thiLiisi wager CAP. be
wound, to see if he could reach the bladder, bumpy
could not do so. It was an utter falsehood w',
that acv Aril tray wet!. He would call Mr. „ass
laanwday,olwitliilonussio•outBddextealgl'gtetrinnthattoitsayttra
war cpti4eg she ieeciy, geßtleepre,
tift7gee
Weist `.l witi.tese it, !!: for cutinsitY, put, his to
IntO the wound., and could tot reach .the bladder, Zees
not'sibq . ••
stbaat 14;$1
ed
Tie fliOth of the Pell",".* • ' fag
th'e perineum was not deep, het hid eat'd. t
not deep in proportion to the size of the man. The
in the bladder precisely corresponded with theo', the
wound, except so far as a sznall slip of no importeueel.P_ical
et:ig
prostate gland, had not bit the very spot of the oriPi,d.
woend. There was a cellular inenibi aye betweeu the u 7.
der and the rectuih, whi,!h was 'very ea, ',,ty j:,.101441.
an breach bail ea4en., :AO v,a#,l),etkill'aili4,f
The i.vi4neyi ?!ieine,:il," add that
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having been performed at all. Hodeekin rue"
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observation that this membrane sus easi.Y able,
yet it wits ee Mr. Hudg perf,etly sound. At !Wall
jaw,.
turned
his back, Lambert took up the I's' tt d
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