Three lectures on the surgical treatment of stone in the bladder : delivered in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, June, 1886 : also the address on the etiology and distribution of stone in the bladder, delivered at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association at Norwich, August, 1874 / by William Cadge.

Cadge, William, 1822-1903.

Date:: [1886?]

Credit: Three lectures on the surgical treatment of stone in the bladder : delivered in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, June, 1886 : also the address on the etiology and distribution of stone in the bladder, delivered at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association at Norwich, August, 1874 / by William Cadge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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S3 Table op Stoke Oases (Continued). Hospital or Infirmary. No. of cases in' Five Years. No. below Ten Tears of Age. Average Age. No. of Beds. Proportion of Stone Cases to whole number of In-patients. 3 0 12 60 1) 661 7 1 31 100 M 714 Byde 0 0 86 0 0 12 6 22 100 17 379 Brighton 22 7 32 165 0 Heading 17 5 18 140 II 298 2 2 4i 64 n 845 15 0 39 104 0 1 1 6 15 II 795 Eartholoinew's Sospital, Ohatham 15 9 16 68 II 166 Bdinhuj'gh Boyal Infirmary 61 10 0 665 1] 353 Glasgow Boyal Infirmary 60 18 25 684 11 492 Tai si p V 8 20 138 11 1703 Dumfries 0 0 0 100 0 Aberdeen 47 a 60 300 II 184 Perth 0 0 84 0 0 Dundee 2 2 9 260 0 0 0 0 120 0 South Charitable Infirmary Cork 10 3 36 108 0 Monaghan 0 0 0 60 0 Q A V fl V n 0 0 0 72 0 ^ioscommon 0 0 0 86 0 1 0 12 100 0 0 0 0 40 0 Haverfordwest 7 0 65 12 0 Bangor 2 0 12 14 1 to 172 4 0 28 55 - 467 Eight London Hospitals;^ viz., St. Bartholomew's, Guy's, University Col- lege, St. Thomas's, St. George's, Westminster, 380 98 26 2866 Charing Cross, Mid- Remarks. Water slightly hard. Chalk and green sand; water not hard. No case in five years ; only seven in 25 years. Water very hard from chalk. Water various; generally hard. Water hard. Water generally hard. Water hard. Stone common in Kent. Water generally soft and pure. Calculus very rare; water soft. None; only 11 in 30 yrs. Water generally soft. None ; stone very rare. Both operations on same patient; water soft. No case in five years. None; only one in 36 yrs. No stone-ease in either of the two hospitals for 10 years ; water hard. No case for many years; water hard. Only three cases in 27 years' practice; water hard. Only three cases in 20 years' practice; water hard. Stone very rare ; no case for more than 7 years ; water soft. See Lancet, April 19th, 1873. Stone rare. Water pure and soft. _ The sources from which the patients admitted into the London hos- pitals came were : From London and suburbs 125 II Kent 37 ,1 Surrey 13 II Essex 10 II Wales 10 From Bucks 8 ,1 Hants 7 1, Yorlishire 7 ,, Sussex 4 ,, Lincolnshire ..^ 6 Others from scattered places. Passing now to the second branch of my subject, permit mo, before considering the causes of the excess of lithuria in this district, briefly to allude to its etiology and pathology. Although it is safe to assume

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