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SIR HENRY MORRIS, who did more than any man of his time to open up the field of renal surgery, died in London on June 14 in his eighty-third year. On February 11, 1880, when he had become full surgeon on the staff of Middlesex Hospital, he removed a stone from the kidney of a patient, this being the first time that a deliberate operation had been performed for such a purpose. The operation was successful, and has become the type of a procedure now adopted by surgeons all the world over. When he gave Hunterian Lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1898, he was able to cite the results he had obtained from 267 operations carried out on the kidney. It is true that Gustav Simon of Heidelberg performed the first operation for the removal of a diseased kidney in 1869, and that this operation had been frequently and successfully repeated before 1880, but it was Morris who demonstrated that one of the commonest of disorders from which the human kidney suffers—the presence of renal concretions—can be safely cured by surgical procedure.
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Sir Henry Morris, Bart. Nature 117, 901–902 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117901a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/117901a0