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XVI. An account of a new mode of performing the High Opera - 
tionfor the Stone. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V. P. R. S. 
Read June 15th, 1820. 
Hav 1 n g performed the high operation for the stone in 
a manner less severe and less dangerous to the patient than 
that now in use, and by which the stone is more easily ex- 
tracted, I am desirous of having it put upon record in the 
Philosophical Transactions, that at the same time it is made 
public, my claim to the first adoption of this mode may be 
established, which could not be so well done, were I to post- 
pone the present communication. 
For the previous information that led me to adopt this 
method, I beg to refer to the History of the High Operation 
for the Stone, published by Mr. Carpue, to which publication 
I am indebted for the principle, and only claim the merit of 
having made, what must be allowed to be, a considerable 
improvement. 
Case, and Operation. 
John Rivington, aged 16, who had suffered as long as 
he could remember from pain in the act of making water, 
and immediately after the whole quantity was evacuated, 
came into St. George's Hospital on the 19th of May, 1820. 
His complaint was found to be the stone, and I performed 
the operation on the 26th of the same month, in the following 
manner. 
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