On the nature and treatment of stomach and urinary diseases : being an enquiry into the connexion of diabetes, calculus, and other affections of the kidney and bladder, with indigestion / [William Prout].

  • William Prout
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1840
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    which the pliosphates succeed to the other ingredients in all the l ollections, is as 1 .' 4is+- Hence the generality of the important law alluded to in various parts of this volume, that in urinary calculi a decided deposition of the mixed phosphates is not followed by other de- positions. TABLE III. Illustrating the frequency of calculous affections at different ages, and in the different sexes. The following table represents the numbers of calculi occurring at decennial periods at the Bristol, Leeds, and Norwich Hospitals. The two first are from Mr. Smith's valuable paper, published in the eleventh volume of the Med. Chirurg. Transactions. The last from A Treatise on the Formation, Constituents, and Extraction of Urinary Calculus. By John Green Crosse, Esq., Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. London, 1835. Under 10 years of age Between 10 and 20 20 and 30 30 and 40 40 and 50 50 and 60 60 and 70 70 and 80 From this table it appears, first, that nearly one half of the whole number of stone cases occurs before the age of puberty ; and that there is an evident increase in the number of cases about the age of forty years. Secondly, that the proportion of females to males afflicted with calculous affections, is only about 1 .* 23. An estimate that agrees very well with Sir B. Brodie's observations before alluded to.f * In oue of these cases no operation was performed. f See page 369. I I 3 o . BriBti 9 1 o Total thr pit; *136 83 281 500 65 21 106 192 35 21 48 104 34 12 48 94 37 28 47 112 28 21 96 145 18 9 70 97 2 2 8 12 355 197 704 1256 o bX) C . .- . Males, 1205. '.2 ] Females, 51. o O