Cases of the successful practice of vesicae lotura in the cure of diseased bladders / by Jesse Foot, Surgeon. The practice of vesicae lotura is thus far decisive, for cases of diseased bladders, which have hitherto been deemed fatal ones, it is a direct cure. It brings off gravel lodged in the bladder, and promises fairer than any former mode, upon the most obvious grounds, to dissolve the stone within.

  • Jesse Foot
Date:
1798
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Credit: Cases of the successful practice of vesicae lotura in the cure of diseased bladders / by Jesse Foot, Surgeon. The practice of vesicae lotura is thus far decisive, for cases of diseased bladders, which have hitherto been deemed fatal ones, it is a direct cure. It brings off gravel lodged in the bladder, and promises fairer than any former mode, upon the most obvious grounds, to dissolve the stone within. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE BY LE DRAN. OBSERVATION LXXX. OF A DISEASED BLADDER. [Translated from the French.] 1 he bladder may be susceptible of many different diseases, and often very difficult to be known in their beginning; neverthelefs, it is only by. this knowledge that a surgeon can pro- perly undertake to perform a cure. We may Say in general, that it is the property of diseases in the bladder, to create pains almost equal, during the whole time the urine is difcharging* whilst the pains that solely depend upon a stone in the bladder are only felt with the first drops, if the stone is small, or when it is in the neck, and with the last drops when the stone is large. On the 23d of May 1725, a man of fifty- five years of age, was received into the hofpi- tal, who thought he was troubled with the stone. He could not retain above three or four fpoonfulls of urine, which obliged him to make water every instant, and in the evacuation felt revere pains, which began with the first drop, B 2, and