Cases of lithotrity, or examples of the stone cured without incision : followed by a description of the first symptoms of the disease / by Baron Heurteloup.

  • Charles Louis Stanislas Heurteloup
Date:
1831
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Credit: Cases of lithotrity, or examples of the stone cured without incision : followed by a description of the first symptoms of the disease / by Baron Heurteloup. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    recovery, if he has not aheady obtained it, and if, as I suppose, the disease has been removed from the prostate and bladder in consequence of the extraction of the stones. The admiral's case is, above all others, suitably adapted for incontestably proving the importance of Lithotrity. The patient .being naturally dis- posed to form vesical calculi, must repeatedly have undergone the operation of Lithotomy, and every time have endangered his life,.had not Litl:iO- trity come to his assistance, and afforded relief, without exposing him to any danger whatever. This patient was operated on in presence of Sir Anthony Carlisle, and Messrs. White, Bransby Cooper, Copland Hutchison, &c. &c. &c. Mr. Duncan, of Worcester, 50 years of age, was placed under my care by Messrs. Green and Pierrepoint. He had been suffering for more than two years, and his bladder contained a cal- culus of about an inch in diameter: it was red, smooth, and composed of uric acid. The urine deposited a considerable quantity of catarrh, and often stopped suddenly during its expulsion : but the patient seldom suffered severely, unless he took too much exercise on foot or on horseback, which produced bloody urine.