Manual of pathology : containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases: together with an exposition of the different methods of examination applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen / by L. Martinet ; tr. with notes and additions, by Jones Quain.

  • Martinet, L. (Louis), 1795-1875.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Manual of pathology : containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases: together with an exposition of the different methods of examination applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen / by L. Martinet ; tr. with notes and additions, by Jones Quain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. 21^ GRAVEL. 720. Symptoms.—Urine depositing soon after beings voided a gravelly matter more or less fine, hard, and resist- ing the pressure of the fingers, which is composed of uric acid united to animal matter, and, in some few instances, of oxalate or phosphate of lime; acute pains, with a sense of heat and heaviness in the lumbar regions ; urine generally voided with pain and difiiculty. This complaint is very commonly met with in gouty subjects. 721. It may be confounded with nephritis or haeraa- turia. 722. Anatomical Characters,—A gravelly substance, similar to that which exists in the urine, is usually detected in the kidneys, ureters or bladder. The substance of the kidney is, in most cases, of a perfectly natural appearance. DIABETES. 723. Symptoms.—The urine is considerably augmented in quantity, and is clear, white, or yellowish, insipid or sweet, and preceded in most instances by frequent calls to make water, and pain in the course of the ureters ; thirst in- satiable, appetite immense, wasting and extreme debility. 724. Anatomical Characters,—The kidneys are at one time found red, and unusually large ; at others they present a remarkable flaccidity ; their vessels are occasionally con- siderably distended with fluid, dilated, and easily torn: in other instances their substance has suffered a sort of dis- organization or solution, more or less complete. Again, they have been found smaller than natural. CYSTITIS. 725. Symptoms,—Acute permanent pain and heat in the hypogastrium, which is sometimes protruded; weight and tension of the perinaeum ; frequent, painful, and often inefiec- tual efforts to make water; frequent and painful erections ; the urine, at first limpid, becomes troubled and reddish, and is voided with pain and scalding heat; a concomitant fever generally attends. When the chronic form succeeds the