A disquisition of the stone and gravel, together with strictures on the gout, when combined with those disorders / by S. Perry.
- Perry, S. (Sampson), 1747-1823.
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A disquisition of the stone and gravel, together with strictures on the gout, when combined with those disorders / by S. Perry. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![further hope, from the fame power of the medicine, that the (tone mio-ht be leffened in dimenfion, and a difcovery efFefted whether 1 attached or not to the flefh which furrounded it. Theie views weie to a degree beyond expectation , for m ten or twelve weeks the pain was mitigated m a great meafure, and the ltone might plainly be perceived to move, by pufhmg contrary ways with rhe'fore finger of each hand. When he was affured, as well as riyfelf that the ftone was not immoveably fixed m the recefs it had made *he eager!y prefled me to the operation, by which he might he more Suddenly rid of a fource of continued nufeiy : his com- plexion and emaciated condition convinced me that his habit was f a verv indifferent ftate, and therefore I directed him to live bet- ter thai/he had done, to take a glafs or two of wine wuhhisdm- ner and a dole of tin&ure of bark twice a day for a month, at th which time I would, if he continued in the fame mind, per- form the ope^^^ , there being no profpeft of fpeedily diffolvinj JSe ftone by the medicine. During this month, m which he had hved more generoufly than before, he acquired better fpuits* and 1 t was'fixed for cutting the ftone out of its bed, on winch ope- raion he was fervently bent. I had, by his knowledge and con thnt appointed for affiftant a furgeon with whom I had tormeily ^ and whole opinion 1 held in great efteem : 1 had th. fa- +■ fSion of finding him agreed with me about the fafety of the tisfa£hon ot : u. ffet about it, when I drafted a ftone ofln exceed^g^ W1 amhdenfe texture, weighing three ounces two Ot an excttiunz . in a areat meafure refembled a longi- drams avmi dupo , . ^ . wf,h one of the horns running to- tudmal leaion ot* > the fmus int0 the bladder ; this T3 obW me to enlarge the onfice l had firft made for its ex- for£Vfecurelthe only arterial branch that was divided, appeared favourable.—I vifited him for three weeks, with and a PP ‘ his recovery. At this tune I was feized wuh every reafon to exP^ , he n^e{plty Qf removing into a dry air a tertian feve > ^ which time he fell into a low way and died mthe country, ufch las originally about three inches m length, tt'Z O-Xout two! but3bad never yielded any well-d,gelled had heale <• j apprehend the attenuated irate of the Pf iu ces had occalloned the diffolution of the fuffermg blood and juices Morfe (in whofe poffeffion the ftone is) Sallow me to fate aVexaft drawing of it, as it may be deemed a 'S,M^aTami^« confuted me in a cafe of the gravel, which he had 1 7 W t coniiderable time to an extreme degree, infomuch, th.t had for a coniidei wa]k or ride with the lead eaie, and com- he was no longer ab loins and jn the neck ct the blad- plainedot exquint: p' lloppage in making water. Although der, with almoft an entne iw,PP h j 6 him r0 other withSaview to'check the difpofition ol](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28525267_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
