Lithotomy and extraction of stone from the bladder, urethra, and prostate of the male and from the bladder of the female / by W. Poulett Harris.

  • Harris, Worsley Poulett.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Lithotomy and extraction of stone from the bladder, urethra, and prostate of the male and from the bladder of the female / by W. Poulett Harris. 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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    7 12 LITHOTOMY wliicli effect, tlie above-mentioned diseases give ' rise to pbospbate-of-lime calculi as explained by Sir B. Brodie :—“ In cases of disordered prostate • gland, the mucous membrane of the bladder some- times becomes inflamed, and the mucus secreted by it deposits phosphate of lime in small masses, and each of these becomes the nucleus of a calculus, but such calculi may unite and form large ones.” 4th. Foreign bodies in the bladder.—Solid sub- stances introduced into the bladder irritate and inflame its mucous membrane, and even in the most healthy persons soon become encrusted . with calculous matter. Author’s observations. Many of the causos, such as the above, which predispose to and which excite stone in the ‘ I bladder are fully recognised, but it is not under- I stood why, under apparently the same conditions of climate, water, &c., the disease should be com- mon in some districts of a country and rare in others. For the elucidation of this subject the theory propounded by Dr Beale is very sugges- tive, and is the direction in which I think an inquiry should be made into it. His views are that the calculus generally commences in the uriniferous i tubes by an aggregation of microscopic particles I of oxalic acid (he has seen two dumb-bells only i I forming the starting-point), and that the precipita- * I tion of the crystals results both from the concen- tration of the fluids of the body, as well as from j i