Account of the history and dissection of a case of malformation of the urinary bladder, with remarks / [Andrew Melville McWhinnie].

  • McWhinnie, Andrew Melville, 1807 or 1808-1866.
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[1850]
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Credit: Account of the history and dissection of a case of malformation of the urinary bladder, with remarks / [Andrew Melville McWhinnie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    through the kidneys, and on some points connected with the excretion of the urine.” The satisfactory result of these observations, there recorded, is well known, and renders unnecessary the further recital of those which were made in the present cases.* At the lower part of the abdomen was the same soft, pulpy, florid and vascular swelling, as is represented in the draw¬ ing of the case of the female, formed by the protruded mucous surface of the pos¬ terior wall of the bladder, its protrusion varying with the degree of pressure from behind, and affected both by the respi ratory movement of the surrounding body. The penis was rudimentary, with complete epispadias; the urine, con¬ stantly distilled from the open mouths of the ureters at the lower part of the swelling, fell, during the erect posture, in part, upon the open groove of the urethra, which served imperfectly as a SJIOUt. In each groin was a projection which became more marked as the growth of the body advanced, corresponding with the widely separated pubic bones: from the want of symphisis and consequent support in the front of the pelvis, re¬ sulted considerable weakness in the part,and awkwardness in the movements : Fig, 2. * See M. Tenon’s account of three cases, with le but de jeter quelque jour sur les ph<*nom£nes illustrative plates; to which are added, £xp^- de la secretion et de l’excr^tion urinaire, in M^m. riences et observations physiologiques faites dans de l’Acad. des Sc. 1763, p. 115.
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