A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson.

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1787
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Credit: A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    efficacious “in obviating the acrimony of the urine, it feems likely to be of fervice if given immediately after the operation of lithotomy has been. performed, as 1t is well known that the healing of the wound is often much retarded by the irritation of that difcharge, which is more likely to be troublefome in this way, as it is in its own nature more acrimonious. “ Schirrofities of the os uteri and of the . - proftate glands, by retarding the paflage of the urine, often produce fymptoms fimilar to thofe that arife from calculus. One difference however may be remarked, which is, that people who have fuch {chirri, bear the motion of a carriage or of a horfe better than is done by thofe who have cal- culus; and if they void mucus, it gene- rally comes away with the laft drops of their urine, and the pain they feel lafts in much the fame degree, during the whole of the time the urine is pafling, which 1s feldom the cafe in calculous complaints ; as the pain in them is generally moft acute, juft as the laft drops are difcharging. People \