On the functional diseases of the renal, urinary, and reproductive organs : with a general review of urinary pathology / by D. Campbell Black.

  • Black, D. Campbell (Donald Campbell), 1841-1898.
Date:
1872
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Credit: On the functional diseases of the renal, urinary, and reproductive organs : with a general review of urinary pathology / by D. Campbell Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sympathetic pain in the testicle and groin, and the fact that in almost all these cases, more or less urine finds its way into the bladder; and by the negative indica- tions afforded by the absence oi the symptoms of suppression. The development of the symptoms of suppression may be in certain cases retarded by vicarious elimina- tion. Hence Desault remarks, II est vrai que la nature previent quelque fois les accidens on retarde leur naissance, en se debarrassent en partie des urines, par d'autres emonctories, tel que la peau, les oreilles, les narines, la bouche, les mamelles, I'anus, &c.; ?.nd Dr Johnstone mentions a case of suppression, in which for some days before death, the skin was all over as white as if it had been powdered. This white dust on being gathered, was found to have the taste of crude sal-ammoniac; and a very rational explanation of this occurrence is offered, that the secretion of urine being prevented, the ammoniacal salts were determined to the skin in such quantity as to crystallise as the sweat evaporated. According to Schottin, in such cases as this urea is found in pus and milk, and the sweat may contain so much of it as to form a crust upon the skin. More recently, in the Deutsch. Arch. f. Klin. Med., Dr Deininger published the case of a boy five years of age, who suffered from anurea renalis for a whole week, and on whose skin urea was discovered. Five cases of this kind have been recorded by Jilrgensen and Leube; but the issue was fatal in all, whereas Dr Deininger's patient recovered. These conditions constitute what may therefore be termed idiopathic suppression of urine; in addition to * London Med. . Commentaries, vol. t.