[The dictionary of surgery:] or the young surgeon's pocket assistant / [Benjamin Lara].

  • Lara, Benjamin, 1770?-1848
Date:
[1796?]
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    found, and taken out; in order to which, vide article Caries. After the removal of the carious bone, the remaining fore muff be treated in the fame manner as diredted for that fpecies of ulcer to which, at the time, it appears to belong. ne Cutaneous Ulcer, Vide articles Achor, and HERt'ES. T!he Venereal Ulcer, Vide article LuesVenerea. Vhe Scorbutic Ulcer, Vide article Scorbutus. SChe Scrophulous Ulcer, Vide article Scrofula. However fimilar the general pradtice may be, there are fome peculiarities proper to tilcers on par- iicular parts, fome inftances of which are as follow : '^n Ulcer in the Bladder, It fhould be diftinguiihed from an ulcer in the kidnies, which fee. Ulcers are, not fo frequent in any of the urinary paffages as they feem to be thought; they are often fufpedted from a flimy difcharge, which is of a yellowilh colour, and proceeds from weaknefs. When an ulcer is formed in the bladder, there is a difcharge of foetid matter, or blood; and fometimes a fort of fcales, or a membran- ous pellicle, are fe'en in the urine. There is alfo a continual dyfuria, and a pain in the urinary paffages. The means of relief are fimilar to thofe for an ulcer in the kidnies. An Ulcer in the Kidnies, Dr. Hunter obferves, that though the kidnies are often found wafted, ^they are hardly ever feen ulcerated. Chefelden obferves, that it is very rarely that an ulcerated bladder is met with in the bodies that are obtained for diffe^tion. Oribafius obferves, that an ulcer in the kidnies may be diftinguilhed by the following circumftances, from the fame diforder in the bladder : ift. When the bladder is afte^fed, the pain is felt in the pubes, and the bottom of the belly; but when the kidnies fuffer, the pain is in the back-part of the Joins. 2dly, When the bladder is the feat of the difeafe, there is a difticulty, if not a fuppreffion of urine; P p 3 but