Excerpt from The Medical Times and Gazette, 1866, Vol. 2: A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News On June 16 Sir William Fergusson removed the portion of the bougie by the operation for lateral lithotomy it had become broken into three pieces, one fracture probably having been made during the operation. Its surface was in no way coated with any calcareous matter, a point to which Sir Wm. Ferguson called attention, as it would be thus the more rea y passed over in sounding, the characteristic ring of the staff upon it being absent. 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.