An essay on the chemical history and medical treatment of calculous disorders / [Alexander Marcet].

  • Alexander Marcet
Date:
1819
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Credit: An essay on the chemical history and medical treatment of calculous disorders / [Alexander Marcet]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the stone, namely, sudden stoppage of urine, pain in the glans penis, &c. ; and he had never consented to be sounded. This gentleman lingered, in a state of progres- sive suffering, till December last, when he died in a convulsive fit. Upon examination the stone was found imbedded in a pouch, and so fixed in its place, that it did not interrupt the passage of urine, nor cause those irritations and sympathetic pains which a moveable body would have excited. An opportunity being afforded me of exa- mining this huge stone, I found its weight to be 3083 grains; its shape was very irre- gular; and on attempting to saw it through, with a view to ascertain its structure and chemical nature, it spontaneously divided into two distinct masses of lithic acid, which had been connected and cemented together by an intervening layer of crystalline triple phosphat, one of the lithic masses being- terminated by a large white mamillary pro- tuberance, consisting of pure triple phosphat in unusually large and distinct crystals ; and it was observed by Sir Gilbert, on the body being opened, that the situation of the stone in the bladder was such that the pointed or
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