Observations on lithotomy, and on the formation of urinary calculi / by John Charles Litchfield.

  • Litchfield, John Charles.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on lithotomy, and on the formation of urinary calculi / by John Charles Litchfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and not merely to local irritation. Sir Everard Home, when speaking of ulcers of the prostate gland, observes, that the body of this gland, when a wound is made in it near the veru- montanum, does not in general recover itself, and an ulcer is formed. This backwardness to heal most probably arises from the urine get- ting into the wound, and keeping up an irrita- tion. There can I think, be little doubt, that such may sometimes be the cause, but gene- rally speaking, I should attribute the cause, as I before observed, to a morbid diathesis of the constitution, for I have found this organ in a state of ulceration, when the greatest care imaginable was taken by the surgeon to pre- vent the escape of urine, after having performed the lateral operation. The experienced sur- geon and indefatigable physiologist before alluded to, continuesto observe, that when once a part of the glandular substance has been destroyed, the ulceration readily spreads to some extent inthe body of the gland. Under other circumstances, he adds, wounds in