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

  • Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822
Date:
1819
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Credit: An essay on the chemical history and medical treatment of calculous disorders / [Alexander Marcet]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which these symptoms are scarcely percep- tible ; it will appear hardly credible, for instance, that the patient from whom the kidney represented in Plate I. was taken, died of hydrothorax at Guy’s Hospital, without any symptom having occurred which could lead me to suppose that there was any disease in the urinary organs. It is probably during the passage of a calculus from the kidneys to the bladder, rather than during its formation, that the greatest pain is experienced. In the latter case the pain felt in the lumbar region is rather of the obtuse kind, whilst during the descent of a calculus into the bladder, it is sometimes most pungent, and is very apt to shoot downwards, in the direction of the ureters. In either case the disease is fre- quently attended with a drawing up of the testicle, and a sense of numbness in the thigh on the affected side. The urine is generally of a deep red colour ; it is voided frequently and in small quantity at a time, and it often deposits a brick-coloured sedi- ment. In many instances, as I have just observed, the passage of the stone through