The preventive treatment of calculous disease, and the use of solvent remedies / by Sir Henry Thompson.

  • Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet
Date:
1876
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    a triumph to our art to dissolve the stone without damage to the delicate structures in which it arises aud finds its residence. And thus it is that I have not only alluded to it in various works, but have discussed it at con- siderable length many years ago in one of them.* I propose therefore to tell you what lias been done, and what at present appears to be attainable by the agents employed ; in short, to sketch the history of solvents for stone in the bladder from the earliest period to the present day. You know that the existence of calculus was recognised, and that a cutting operation for its removal, at ail events in the cases of boys, was practised, a few centuries before the Christian era. In course of time the attempt was made to dissolve it, especially in the case of adults. It appears that neither Hippocrates nor Galen cutertaiued the belief that this was possible. One of the earliest allusions to the practice is * The Enlarged Prostate (1858): last chapter.