Alghizi, Thomas

, a very celebrated lithotomist, of Florence, was born Sept. 17, 1669, and died Sept. 24,1713, of an accident while shooting, his piece having burst, which carried oft“his left hand. He applied himself chiefly to operations for the stone, which he frequently performed with great success, particularly in the case of one of his patients, pope Clement XI. He published” Lithotomia, overo del cavar la Pietra," Firenza, 1707, fol. This discovers a great knowledge of the art he professed, and the cures recorded are undeniable proofs of his ability. His opinion, in this work, is that the stone is seldom or never formed in the bladder, but that it falls into it from the kidneys, or some neighbouring part, and that it grows there by several incrustations. ³