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

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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coals produces a foetid smell, denotes the bladder to be in a state of ulceration, mostly caused from the stone being broke or split in pieces, which pieces lacerate the coats. In the strangxiary, the water is a little muddy, salt, and sharp, with fila- ments, shews that there is seme spasmodic dis- order affects the sphincter. If blood is mixed with the urine, like the washings of flesh or red wine, and change to a purple colour, it proceeds from the kidneys ; but if it be of a brownish black, it comes from the veins of the bladder. Of the Cholera Morbus, or Vomiting AND Looseness. This disease is generally preceded with every symptom of the bile, as before described, which, by being neglected, soon discovers itself. First, from the stomach being over-loaded with the yellow hile or clioler, which is very bitter, (all strong bitters being powerful emetics,) and by being two long retained in the stomach, causes a nausea, sickness, sick head-ache, and vomiting, which by a redundancy of the cystic bile, that being of an acid, strong, solvent, and purgative nature, immediately forces its way into the bowels, there quickly fluidizing their contents ; after which becoming acrimonious. All of a sudden, a violent vomiting takes place, and almost instantly, mostly follows a violent purging. Sometimes the contents of the last meal are voided first; afterwards comes

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