Lithiasis anglicana, or, A philosophical enquiry into the nature and origin of the stone and gravel, in human bodies, &c. : Wherein is considered, the possibility of dissolving such animal tartar or calculous concretion. In a letter to David Hartley, author of the cases in behalf of Mrs. Stephen's medicines. To which is added, an account of a new and safe method of cure for the ischury, or total suppression of urine ... / By Henry Bracken.

  • Henry Bracken
Date:
1739
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Credit: Lithiasis anglicana, or, A philosophical enquiry into the nature and origin of the stone and gravel, in human bodies, &c. : Wherein is considered, the possibility of dissolving such animal tartar or calculous concretion. In a letter to David Hartley, author of the cases in behalf of Mrs. Stephen's medicines. To which is added, an account of a new and safe method of cure for the ischury, or total suppression of urine ... / By Henry Bracken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3« ] would make the Patient void his Urine, nor the Catheter be in foch Cafes introduced \ and, as the Operation was never pra&ifed in fuch Com¬ plaints, I efteem myfelf Happy in being the firft Difcoverer of it. And I do affiire you, that you have it under my Hand as it was performed by me, as well as a juft Account of what oc- cured to my Patients afterwards j but firft I beg leave to fhew, what was my Reafon of ventur¬ ing out of the common Road or Pradtice, on thefe Occafions. And it was this, viz. In the Year 1723, I was called upon to vifk Thomas Dickenfon, of Heyjham, near Lancafter; he was then about ftxty Years of Age, and likely enough to live twenty Years longer, had not an Ifchury or Suppreftion of Urine feized him. When I came to him I found him in great Agonies and violent Pain, and laying my Hand upon the Region of the Bladder, I found he had three or four Pints of Urine contained in it, befides what he might have elfe where be¬ tween the Kidneys, &c. for when the Bladder is full of Urine, I am of Opinion, the Pelvis, of the Kidneys, as well as the Ureters, are violently upon the ftretch, by Reafon the Bladder is already fo diftended with Urine, that the Be- trufores Urin<e contract Ipontaneoufly, and with as much force as poflible to get rid of the Enemy, whereby the Urine is hindered from entering the Bladder, and kept back in the Kidneys, Ureters, &c. and from hence the Sick complain of Excrutiating Pains in the Loins, &c. But to proceed. When I found fo much Urine in the Man’s Bladder, I judged it more to the Purpofe, to fend