Homage to Samuel Pepys
By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Jan 14th, 2009In the past few weeks I have been reassured by the 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys. Reading accounts of the removal of his bladder stone in 1658 made me realise how lucky I was that anaesthetics have been discovered.
My stone, like Pepys’s, was a large one and I was not certain when I went into [...]

