A probationary essay on the morbid anatomy of the urinary bladder / [David Clark].

  • Clark, David.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A probationary essay on the morbid anatomy of the urinary bladder / [David Clark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hernia vesicalis, which a man had from his earliest infancy, and which becoming strangu¬ lated, caused his death. Facts in support of this kind of hernia, are to be found in Ar- naud’s paper.* i Symptoms.—Whenever cystocele preseiits it¬ self, it may be known when the bladder is dis¬ tended by a fullness and elasticity of the parts which go off when the patient has made water; if it does not entirely disappear, the pressure of the hand, and laying the patient on bis back, will make the water return into that portion of the bladder which is situated within the abdomen, and will excite the desire to evacuate it; this, with the deviation of the canal of the urethra (if the cystocele is a crural one) towards that side on which the hernia is situated,! the dysuria and occasional reten¬ tion, and other concomitant circumstances, will be sufficient to distinguish this affection, especially if a stone can be found in the tu¬ mor, which is sometimes the case. There is * Verdier’s Memoirs, p. 79. f Diet, des Scien. Med. Cystomerocele. Verdier’s Memoir, obs. 11th.