Lithotrity and lithotomy compared : being an analytical examination of the present methods of treating stone in the bladder, with suggestions for rendering lithotrity applicable to the disease in almost all its stages and varieties, and remarks on the general treatment of gravel and stone / by Thomas King.

  • King, Thomas, 1802-1839.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Lithotrity and lithotomy compared : being an analytical examination of the present methods of treating stone in the bladder, with suggestions for rendering lithotrity applicable to the disease in almost all its stages and varieties, and remarks on the general treatment of gravel and stone / by Thomas King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    purge the blood without intermission of all the putrescent, and too animalised sub- stances it contains. These, as we have al- ready stated, must be constantly thrown out of the system, and they can escape in totulity only by the urinary apparatus : no other can secrete a fluid exactly similar to the urine. Although the principal materials of this fluid are found in all individuals, yet, it may be said to vary, as to the number and quantity of these, more than any other se- creted in the body. In this point of view its study is of the greatest practical impor- tance. Unfortunately, in the present state of science, we can appreciate only approx- imatively many of the circumstances upon which the quality and relative proportion of its elements depend; but there are others having a great influence, which we are well acquainted with, and can regulate and direct The urine as it is distilled from the kidney differs considerably from that which is