An essay on the lithontriptic virtues of the gastric liquor / by John Syng Dorsey.

  • Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818.
Date:
1802
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    but few claims to our attention, and the former ap- pears by far the most satisfactory. The causes which influence the calculous dia- thesis are various,depending on climate, f-ex, aliment, disease, and many other circumstances. Dr. Rush remarks, that stone is most common in Great-Britain, Holland and France, and a very rare disease in Swit- zerland; Saxony, Japan, or India*. Mr. Bruce ob- seived, that the Egyptians near the Nile, who drink rain water, are so free from stone, that it is scarcely known among them; and that it is much more fre- quent where they use well-water. An inquiry into the causes of stone would lead too far from the sub- ject of this essay. Stony concretions are not confined to the urinary organs; there is perhaps no part of the body which has not, occasionally, been the seat of them. The stomach often contains them. In the Gen- tleman's Magazinef, there is an account of a stone taken from the stomach of a horse, which weighed nineteen pounds avoirdupois. In the intestinal canal, they are not unfrequent. Mr. Gaitskell procured forty stones, which were taken from the intestines of a horse. Van Swieten has collected several cases, where there were found calculous concretions in the pineal gland, and plexus choroides. Stony matter is frequently coughed up from the lungs, and Heister observed a stone at the bifurcation of the trachea, in a patient who died of asthma. * Rush's MSS Lectures. t- Vol. vii. p. 448s