The retrospective address, upon medical science and literature, delivered at the fourth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association held at Manchester, July 21st, 1836 / by John Green Crosse.

  • John Green Crosse
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1836
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    and had undergone a morbid growth ; the patient recovered and is now in health, supplying- an argu- ment in favour of amputation, which has been so much discouraged by some recent writers upon the disease. A very simple fact, which any body might have ascertained, sometimes sets aside an ingenious the- ory, as happens by crystallized oxalate of lime* being' found in th.e tuhuli uriniferi of the kidney. The existence of tubercles in the lungs at the age of ninety-three, substantiated by Dr. Christison,f shews either that this morbid structure may arise at the most advanced period of life, or remain quiescent for very many years. One of the most surprising of pathological and preservative phenomena is the passing away, per rectum, of an invaginated and prolapsed portion of intestine, comprising all its coats, without the con- tinuity of the canal being destroyed. This subject has been well elaborated by Dr. Wm. Thomson ;J and it appears that of thirty-five cases, in some of which several feet of intestine were voided, a ma- jority recovered. The previous remarks of Drs. Bright, Gregory, and Christison, have been confirmed by Dr. J. Os- where a few were observed separated from each other, to the extent of one-quarter or one-third of an inch, by the same kind of condensed adipose substance as occupied the rest of the limb. • I have stated this fact in a Prize Essay on the Urinsiry Calcu- lus, p. 17. It proves that concretions of this description are formed in the tubvli uriniferi, and not according to the hypotliesis of Dr. Trout, by oxalic acid meeting with lime in the pnlvix of the kidney. t Edinburgh Medical and SurgicalJournal, vol. XLIIl. p. 2G8. + Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. XLH'. p. 296.
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