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Excerpt from Modern Methods of Diagnosis in Urinary Surgery There is no branch of surgery which has been more hampered by tradition than that of the genito-urinary organs. The great names of the past associated with this branch of surgery have helped to sanctify their teaching long after it has become obsolete. The operations for stone and stricture devised and practised so skilfully by the accomplished anatomists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries still form the gospel of many older surgeons, and their want of cleanliness and ignorance of its necessity is perpetuated in the daily practice of too many practitioners to-day. What mischief arises from this imperfect training is only fully realized by those who have opportunities of seeing its results. 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.