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
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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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    I have remarked, that fcorbutic habits generate ftones quicker than others. This may fugged to home a plaufible reafon for living in fuch a manner as to prevent the fluids from affording tin's amnia] fait in any abundance ; but when we conlider that a cer- tain quantity of it is necelYary to the due concobfion of the fluids, we might, by following the dictates of this reafoning in too feru- ptilous a manner, deftroy the a£lion of the fluids upon the folids, and bring on leucophlegmatias, dropfies, and other diforders more immediately alarming in their nature. Laiily, fince the primary particles of ftone are different in their figures, if the firil jun&ion of them be of the nature of the la- mellae before-mentioned, the nucleus, or fir it foundation, will be of the harder kind throughout that lamina $ as thofe particles have, no doubt, a greater affinity to each o;her than to other particles.— As foon then as one lamina is compleated, the concretion is at liberty to begin a new lamina, either of the fame nature of particles, or of thofe approaching to afpherical figure, according to chance. If of the latter, this fecond lamina will be lefs compact and denfe, confiquently more eafy of l’olution—fo that each lamina mull p e- ferve an uniformity of cohefion and texture, although the lamina maybe different from each other. If it were to happen that an intire ftone was made up of thofe former particles it would be hard indeed, and in its nature dreadful.—This, however, is fcarce likely ever to happen in the human body, from the continued motion of its feveial parts. CHAP. V. § T* The Methods hitherto purfued in endeavouring to cure the Stone.— There is no doubt but the diforder we are treating of had its.origin with our firft fathers, fince no climate nor manner of living can giant us an immunity from it.—As foon, therefore, as its nature became in part known, by means of that prying and reftlefs curiofiry ingrafted in man, it was looked upon as preter- natural, and owing to fome extraneous fubftance having found its way into the body. This opinion was fieemingly corroborated from there having been found foreign lubftances in the heart of trees, (tones, (hells, &c, fo that without confidering fully the nature of its compofition and accretion, expedients were formed for re- lieving the unhappy creatures affiitfed therewith,—Pharmacy was but little known in thofe days, furgery and operations were their only refource, thele being of very early date.—We have, never- the,efs, no-account of the operation for the ftone till the time of long b*f ^ lS moie ^ian probable lithotomy was performed However imperfeft his method might be, it was purfued till after ttie time of Johannes de Romanis, when, no doubt, the ill fuccefs B 6 and
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