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In what year did James Earle publish'Practical Observations on the Operation for Stone'?

  • 1793

  • 1791

  • 1796

  • 1798

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James Earle published Practical Observations on the Operation for Stone in 1793. The book was a seminal work on the treatment of urinary calculi, or kidney stones, and was one of the first to describe the use of a lithotrite, a surgical instrument used to crush stones in the urinary tract.
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