History: He performed the first ever lithotripsy – on himself … with a knitting needle
Romancing the stone: It took him six months of scraping to coax out the calculi
Feel free to pre-emptively cross your legs in discomfort for this one.
When Colonel Claude Martin, a French army officer in the East India Company, developed bladder stones in 1782, he found himself stuck between a rock and a hard place.
