A new treatise on the stone : containing the causes both remote and immediate. The indications, counter-indications, and the prognostick. With an exact analysis of the different preparations of Mrs. Stephen's medicines, to prove that it cannot be a specific for the stone / By the chevalier de Coetlogon.

  • De Coetlogon, Dennis, -1749.
Date:
[1739?]
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Credit: A new treatise on the stone : containing the causes both remote and immediate. The indications, counter-indications, and the prognostick. With an exact analysis of the different preparations of Mrs. Stephen's medicines, to prove that it cannot be a specific for the stone / By the chevalier de Coetlogon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ » ' ^Thc Description of the Vesica Urinaria* o\ Bladder. npHE MedeaUrinaria, or Bladder, is compoled c I three Membranes, the uttermoft Common, froi the Peritonaeum, and the two others Propel* Th middle one is compoled of carnous Fibres, both Long tudinal and Circular ; by the Aftion or the Longitud nal, the Fund of the Bladder is prefs’d forward towarc the Os Pubis, from whofe lower Part they arile, as we as from the fore Part of the Proftatwhile the Circi lar ones, by leffening its Dimenfions, procure the Di charge of Urine. ^ The inward. Membrane is nervous,and of an exqumtn Senfe; and therefore it would be fubjeT to many mo; Accidents, was it not fenced on all Sides, with a va Number of Glands, againft the Acrimony of the Urin The Sphincter Fefica, is a Mufcle placed at the Neck < the Bladder, which by keeping it conftandy ciofed, hi) ders the unvoluntary Emiffion of Urine. The Bladder is a Kind of Referyoir, which receiv the Urine of the Kidneys, that it might not be^evacuat* againft our Content; for which Purpofe, Nature h joined to it the main excretory Veffel, or Pipe, calf Urethra j which being as tender as the inward Membra] of the Biadder,fhe has lined it in the fame Manner wii finall Glands, to avoid the frequent Dangers it othe wife might be expofed to. 'The Bladder and Urethra receive into their Comp fltion Veins and Arteries from the Epigaft ricks and 1 Hack Nerves and from the Pelvis of the Abdomen. This fhort, though very neceiTary anatomical B feription of the urinary Organs, thus eftablifhed, will not be improper, before we attempt to dilcover t| Caufes of the Maladies which afteft thole Parts, eft cial’ly of the Stone and Gravel, to give likewife an Id of the Nature of the Urine; its Properties, Qualm. and its conftituent Principles; Once from the Depravatu a