A disquisition of the stone and gravel, together with strictures on the gout, when combined with those disorders; pointing out a safe and efficacious solvent for reducing the stone, and correcting the calculous diathesis in the habit / by S. Perry.

  • Perry, S. (Sampson), 1747-1823.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A disquisition of the stone and gravel, together with strictures on the gout, when combined with those disorders; pointing out a safe and efficacious solvent for reducing the stone, and correcting the calculous diathesis in the habit / 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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    PREFACE. IN the whole list of diseases to which the human frame is subject, few are more dreadful in their consequences to the patient than the stone 5 as it fre- quently attacks the most robust constitution, and in such case the inflammatory symptoms are carried to a higher degree than usual, making the patient suffer, at once, much pain and almost constant imprisonment. The stone has long been deemed the opprobrium medicorum, and the knife the only resource. It is not to l>e conjectured what proportion of those ivho have submitted to the operation have died ; for, to the honour and credit of our surgeons, it must be allowed, that lithotomy in no country was ever more skilfully performed than in our own : notwithstanding which, if we consider the number of persons who are excluded from that sad resource or alternative through various causes, such as the seat of the disorder (in the kidneys for instance) being inaccessible to the knife, the great age of the patient, or ill disposition of the habit to the favourable healing of the wound, with several other considerations of a like nature ; it is presumed not only the public, but also the faculty, will regard this disco- very vith a favourable eye ; more especially .when it shall have been proved that the innocency of the medi- cine, m those cases not within the reach of any remedy whateveris not less to be relied on than its efficacy See the case of the Duke of Northumberland.
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