An abstract treatise on the stone in the gall-bladder, gravel, and stone or calculi in the kidneys or bladder : the formation of the bladder, with its use and action, also, the urine, of what composed, its properties and action on the bladder when in a diseased state, with its appearances and symptoms when these dreadful diseases are approaching or present : with a full description of the bile, cardialgia, or heart-burn, their origin and causes, the general symptoms, and great danger arising from neglect, which causes a violent vomiting and looseness, now called the cholera morbus : also, the full use and valuable properties of Dr. R. Barlow's lithontriptic, or dissolvent, for both prevention and cure : dedicated to the afflicted and enlightened public, and, for their easy comprehension, all technical terms in anatomy, physic, and medicine, which are unavoidably used, are fully explained : with a description of worms and their numerous symptoms / by R. Barlow.

  • Barlow, R.
Date:
1833
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Credit: An abstract treatise on the stone in the gall-bladder, gravel, and stone or calculi in the kidneys or bladder : the formation of the bladder, with its use and action, also, the urine, of what composed, its properties and action on the bladder when in a diseased state, with its appearances and symptoms when these dreadful diseases are approaching or present : with a full description of the bile, cardialgia, or heart-burn, their origin and causes, the general symptoms, and great danger arising from neglect, which causes a violent vomiting and looseness, now called the cholera morbus : also, the full use and valuable properties of Dr. R. Barlow's lithontriptic, or dissolvent, for both prevention and cure : dedicated to the afflicted and enlightened public, and, for their easy comprehension, all technical terms in anatomy, physic, and medicine, which are unavoidably used, are fully explained : with a description of worms and their numerous symptoms / by R. Barlow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    from these dreadful diseases, and the only part which can be operated upon by surgical aid, I shall give a short description of it?, formation, use, and action ; and as all diseases causes remarkable changes in the urine, contained and retained therein, shall also make a few observations on it for general information. The bladder is composed of three coats. The FIRST is the covering of the Peritonaeum (a thin, soft membrane which encloses all the bowels contained in the lower belly); the second is composed of muscular fibres which run irregular several ways ; and the third, which is full of wrinkles for facilitating its dilation, is both glan- dulous and nervous. Its glands separates a viscous and slimy matter which defends it from the acri- mony of the salts in the urine; around its neck is encircled a small muscle which contracts its orifice, that the urine may not run out but when it thrusts open the passage, by its second coat, which is called, detrusor urince (forcer of the urine), the blood-vessels of the bladder are branches of the hypogastrics (arteries and veins'). Its nerves come from the intercostals (arteries, veins, and nerves, which branches between the ribs), and their use is to be a reservatory of the urine, that it may not incessantly run from us, as it is separated in the kidneys. The sides of the bladder are thus guarded by a mucilaginous fluid, excreted by the glands which are formed between its coats ;