A treatise upon gravel and upon gout : in which their sources and connection are ascertained : with an examination of Dr. Austin's theory of stone, and other critical remarks. A dissertation on the bile and its concretions, and an enquiry into the operation of solvents / by Murray Forbes, member of the Surgeon's Company.

  • Forbes, Murray, active 18th century.
Date:
MDCCXCIII. [1793]
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Credit: A treatise upon gravel and upon gout : in which their sources and connection are ascertained : with an examination of Dr. Austin's theory of stone, and other critical remarks. A dissertation on the bile and its concretions, and an enquiry into the operation of solvents / by Murray Forbes, member of the Surgeon's Company. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    univerfal derangement. The febrile condition, that takes place from the uneafinefs endured, occafions contraction of the extreme vefTels, which may ceafe to tranfmit their proper portions of excrementitious matter, while from near connec- tion there is an increafed adlion of thekidnies, by which a greater proportion, of what mould have been difcharged by different emunctories, may be carried off. The fecretion of urine by the kidnies is not lefs influenced by irritation in the paffages, than that of mucus from the glands which open into the bladder. It may likewife be obferved, that the accidents, from which the argument is drawn, cannot be fuppofed to occur to a perfectly found habit. There muft have been fome pre-exifting irrita- tion, or antecedent difeafe, to require the appli- cation of a catheter or bougie. Many have fuppofed, that any folid body kept as a nucleus in natural urine frequently renewed, would be- come incrufted fo that a ftone mould be formed. This is one of the numerous falfeopinions which, originating from hypothecs, or gaining footing from loofe obfervation and vague experiment, have continued to be received as if refting upon an eftablifhed bafis. In proper urine there is not in clofe veffels a particle of concreting acid depofited, the whole of that acid being in per- fect