lithotomist

It is owing to this connexion between these parts that the lithotomist has to depress the bowel, lest it be wounded, while the prostate is being incised.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

Its left lobe lies directly under the middle of the line of incision which the lithotomist makes through the surface; a fibrous membrane forms a capsule for the gland, and renders its surface tough and unyielding, but its proper substance is friable, and may be lacerated or dilated with ease, after having partly incised its fibrous envelope.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

The scalpel of the lithotomist, guided by the staff in this part of the urethra, is made to enter the neck of the bladder deeply in the same direction.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

The late William Cadge, of Norwich, probably the finest lithotomist in the world (as Thompson was the greatest lithotritist), once told me that he had performed over four hundred operations in the Norwich Hospital for this disease alone.

Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" James Blyth

Franco was an illiterate travelling lithotomist -- a class of itinerant physicians who were very generally frowned down by the regular practitioners of medicine.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

The late Mr. George Bell, a most successful lithotomist, proposed to perform this operation in two stages.

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

While in his service, it happened that the celebrated lithotomist, Cotot, came to Laval to operate on one of the cure's ecclesiastical brethren.

Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

(1743-95, methods of amputation), and finally the monk and lithotomist Frère Côme (Jean de St. Cosme, Baseilhac, 1703-81), the inventor of the lithotome-caché.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913