An inquiry into the nature and treatment of diabetes, calculus, and other affections of the urinary organs : with remarks on the importance of attending to the state of the urine in organic diseases of the kidney and bladder : and some practical rules for determining the nature of the disease from the sensible and chemical properties of that secretion / by William Prout.

Date:
1825
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and treatment of diabetes, calculus, and other affections of the urinary organs : with remarks on the importance of attending to the state of the urine in organic diseases of the kidney and bladder : and some practical rules for determining the nature of the disease from the sensible and chemical properties of that secretion / by William Prout. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    satisfaction of discovering the cystic oxide in gravel from the human body, and afterwards in the urine of the same patient, who is afflicted with the stone, the same substance in considerable quantity. In this urine the litliic acid was almost entirely wanting, nor was the urea found in it in natural quantity.” M. Lassaigne has also lately found this substance in the form of calculus in the bladder of a dog.# Dr. Marcet has observed that all the specimens of cystic oxide calculi are remarkable for their purity; and hence he remarks, that this diathesis has a more exclusive tendency in regard to the formation of other kinds of calculi than any other species of uri- nary concretion, j- This observation seems to be con- firmed by the examination of the urine above given, in which the absence of lithic acid, &c. was remarkable. Like the other two species of urinary concretions, how- ever, it may be evidently followed by the phosphates, as appears from one of the specimens of calculus above described, and also from the examination ol the urine, in which the tendency to the deposition ot the phosphates had been evidently produced by the use of alkaline remedies. This diathesis, like the * Ann. de Chimie et de Physique, xxiii. 328.—Also An- nals of Philosophy (new series), vi. 316. -|- This substance, from its peculiar plastic and adhesive nature, must be even more difficult to get rid of than a harder substance ; hence from this circumstance, no less than from the large quantity in which it is occasionally secreted, it seems to be exceedingly liable to form concretions in the kidney ana bladder.