A treatise on the formation, constituents and extraction of the urinary calculus; being the essay for which the Jacksonian Prize for ... 1833 was awarded / by John Green Crosse.

  • Cross, John, 1790-1850.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A treatise on the formation, constituents and extraction of the urinary calculus; being the essay for which the Jacksonian Prize for ... 1833 was awarded / by John Green Crosse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (a) rests on the body of the kidney—(b) on the pelvis—(c) marks the very small ureter—the inferior letter (a) marks the emulgent artery, very much ossified, divid¬ ing into three branches (e, f, g,) before entering the kidney; each of these branches is likewise much ossified—(h) the emulgent vein, joining (i) the ascending vena cava. As the cavities of the kidney and ureter were cjuite unobstructed and no other disease present, I see no reason why the atrophy of this organ should not be attributed to the extreme ossification of the emulgent artery. PLATE IX. Fig. 1. A left lateral view of the bladder, root of penis and appendages, removed from a patient aged sixty-eight years, who died from the effects of a calculus, situated in the prostatic and membranous parts of the urethra, and extending into the neck of the bladder—(a) the root of the penis—(b) the corpora cavernosa cut across—(c) the urethra covered by its corpus spongiosum and dense membrane—(d) the bulb of the urethra—(e) Cowper’s gland large and distinct—(f) the left crus penis cut across—(g, g,) the fundus of the bladder covered by peritonaeum— (h, h, h,) parts of the bladder, the peritonaeum removed—(i) the left vesicula seminalis—(j) the termination of left ureter—(k, k,) the cavity in which the calcu¬ lus, represented in fig. 1 of plate ii, was lodged, being just large enough to contain it, and formed by a small portion of the membranous part of the urethra, by all the prostatic part, and by the neck of the bladder as far as where the ureters open into it—a bougie (1) is passed though the spongy and membranous parts of the urethra, and appears in the cavity at (m)—another bougie (n) is passed through the termi¬ nation of the left ureter, and appears in the cavity at (o,) marking the superior limit of the cavity to be level with the orifice of the ureter—two bristles (t) mark the orifices of the vasa deferentia, thereby defining the exact situation of the pros¬ tatic part of the urethra, the prostate gland itself being entirely absorbed, or no other trace of it left than the dense firm substance (s,) like condensed cellular