Diseases of the bladder and prostate : and obscure affections of the urinary organs, with diagrams illustrating the author's treatment of stone, without cutting, and numerous successfully treated cases with the spray treatment hitherto regarded as "incurable" / by David Jones, M.D.

  • Jones, David.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Diseases of the bladder and prostate : and obscure affections of the urinary organs, with diagrams illustrating the author's treatment of stone, without cutting, and numerous successfully treated cases with the spray treatment hitherto regarded as "incurable" / by David Jones, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by overworked, and in their turn become diseased by diuretic medicines and stimulants.* The writer seldom sees a patient who does not say, my doctor tells me to drink gin. One doctor advises whisky ; another orders the patient abroad, to drink the waters, these waters being usually irritating alkaline diuretics, according to the locality selected. It would appear most unreasonable to whip and spur a horse already jaded from overwork: common sense would dictate rest, which always does good ; but, as your bladder is weak, the doctor whips up the kidneys by drugs, and the alcoholic drinks recommended, to secrete (manufacture) more urine ; and thereby the poor crippled bladder (which is incapable of disposing of the normal quantity) is actually made to work more in a diseased and enfeebled condition than in a sound, strong, and healthy state of the organ. The causes of these terrible diseases are numerous, and when weakness exists these causes may actively operate with serious effect. Among the superinducing or exciting causes alluded to, the following may be mentioned, viz., wet feet, lying or sitting on damp ground (particularly in females during certain periods), sitting for a lengthened time in damp clothes, suppressed skin action, as by sudden exposure from heated and crowded apartments to the cold air, sleeping in sheets not properly aired, indiscretion in early life, gonorrhoea, neglecting to empty the bladder through modesty or otherwise, using strong or improper injections (particularly in the male sex), drinking large quantities of wine or beer, taking diuretic medicines for a lengthened period, &c , &c. When the bladder becomes chronically diseased, in either sex, it is one of the most distressing cases a physician can have to deal with, (i) on account of the indescribable discomfort experienced by the patient, and (2) because of the physician's inability (by the usual methods) to afford relief Chronic disease of the bladder, as of other organs, more usually follows a previous acute attack, * The medicines usually prescribed are, Buchu, Uva Ursi, Pareira Brava, Triticum Repens, Copaiba, Sc,c,