Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the prostate gland : illustrated by copper plates / by Everard Home.

  • Everard Home
Date:
1811
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Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the prostate gland : illustrated by copper plates / by Everard Home. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    [48 ] six hours together; and this so regularly, that there was not a deviation of a minute in point of time, nor of a tea-spoonful in quantity. At the end of this period, the kidneys were 24 hours without secreting more than 4 ounces. It is probable, that this great increase of secretion arises from the orifices of the ureters into the bladder, being prseterna- turally dilated, and a slight degree of inflammation coming upon the internal membrane of the bladder, and being con- tinued from that cavity along the ureters to the kidneys, and irritating them. The same effect is not unfreqUently met with in cases of old strictures in the urethra. Sixty-four ounces, and even a larger quan- tity, shall be secreted in 12 hours, and afterwards no more than the usual quan^ tity. Violent haemorrhage diminishes the se^ cretion of urine. ' A gentleman 30 years of age, in March 1806, lost 2 pints of blood from the urethra, after which he