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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    the former at (j, j, j,) so as to prevent the calculus from falling upon the neck of the bladder, its resting place being behind those prominences, in the space below the dotted line (k, k.) PLATE XVII. -4- The bladder and its appendages, shewing the extreme and fatal effects of stricture and stone, perinseal fistulae, abscesses in the coats of the bladder, and adhesion of the contiguous bowel—(a, a,) the corpora cavernosa and corpus spongiosum divi¬ ded, exposing the whole course (b, b,) of the spongy portion of the urethra—(c) a stricture at the commencement of the membranous part—(d) the orifice of a sinus behind the stricture, which communicated with extensive sinuses, opening upon the perinaeum—(e) the prostatic portion of urethra—(f, f,) the outer and superior surface of bladder, where covered by peritonaeum—(g, g,) the outer surface of the same, where there is no peritonaeal covering—(h, h, h,) the divided coats of the bladder, from half an inch to an inch in thickness, shewn by the removal of its anterior part—(i, i,) large cavities formed by abscesses in the coats of the bladder, the matter, by a circuitous course, getting an outlet by reaching the cavity of the bladder by the opening (k)—(j, j, j,) the cavity of the bladder, of very small size —(1, 1,) a portion of the colon, adhering to the fundus of the bladder—(m) the cavity of a large abscess in the coats of the bladder, threatening to burst into the colon. PLATE XVIII. Fig. 1. The bladder of a patient, whom I successfully lithotomized when seventy- five years old, removing six calculi of pure lithic acid, weighing nearly four ounces; he died eleven years afterwards, when numerous small calculi were found in the bladder, twelve of which are represented in fig. 5 of plate ii. The vesical cavity R