Volume 1

A descriptive catalogue of the anatomical museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

Date:
1846-1862
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    They are irregular in form and rough on their surfaces; the largest of them is three quarters of an inch in diameter. 161. Part of 146 Calculi, removed from a sac connected with the middle of the spongy portion of the urethra. It was not certain whether the sac was formed by the urethra dilated behind a stricture which existed immediately in front of it; or was formed after ulceration of the urethra in the tissues around it. Fusible calculus with thin layers of Urate of Ammonia in- termixed. Operation by Mr. Viucent. The patient was a man twenty-three years old. He had been for ten years subject to incontinence of urine, the consequence of a kick, by which the urethra was ruptured or otherwise injured. He was in the habit of wearing a yoke to compress the anterior part of the urethra. Six years before the removal of the calculi, he had bleeding from the urethra for several days, and then first per- ceived the swelling in the perineum, which from that time gradual]/ increased with the increase of the calculi. Case-Book, Vol. i. No. 222. The rest of the calculi are in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 162. Calculus. Nearly pure Oxalate of Lime, in perfect crystals on the external surface. From the bladder of a boy two years and a half old. Lithotomy by Mr. Lawrence. 163. Sections of a large Calculus. Nucleus, Oxalate of Lime; surrounded by thick alternate layers of Uric Acid and Oxa- late of Lime ; and coated by a thick layer of Phosphate of Ammonia and Magnesia. Presented by E. A. Lloyd, Esq. 164. Sections of a large Calculus, of pure, compact, and tubercu- lated Uric Acid. From a man between thirty and forty years old. Lithotomy by Mr. Lawrence. 165. Section of a large Calculus. Uric Acid. Lithotomy by Percivall Pott. Presented by the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 166. Sections of a Calculus. Nucleus, Oxalate of Lime ; outer white layer, the Phosphates. From a young man. Lithotomy by Mr. Lawrence.