An essay on the chemical history and medical treatment of calculous disorders / [Alexander Marcet].

  • Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822
Date:
1819
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    This singular disposition of calculi was noticed several years ago by Sir Everard Home, with a view to account for the supposed effects of solvents in curing the stone; and he showed, in the same paper, that the diagnostic symptoms of calculi may also sometimes be prevented from appearing, by the effect of a peculiar mor- bid change in the prostate gland.* A striking ’instance, in which some of the most frequent effects of the stone in the bladder were prevented from taking place, by a peculiarity of situation, lately came to my knowledge through the kindness of Sir Gilbert Blane, under whose immediate ob- servation the case occurred. A gentleman, about 72 years old, of extraordinary indo- lent arid sedentary habits of life, had laboured for eight or ten years under symptoms of irritation in the urinary passages, with an occasional discharge of gravel, and of mucus sometimes streaked with blood. But he never had the usual diagnostic symptoms * Philosoph. Transac. for 1808, p.245, 246.