The works of Matthew Baillie : To which is prefixed, an account of his life, collected from authentic sources / by James Wardrop.

Date:
1825
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Credit: The works of Matthew Baillie : To which is prefixed, an account of his life, collected from authentic sources / by James Wardrop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    URINARY FISTULA. I was present at the opening of a boy, who died at St. George’s Hospital, by Mr. Hunter. The boy was about four years of age, and had been long afflicted with a disease of the urethra, so that the urine did not pass in the usual way, but was discharged by an orifice in the scrotum. On examination there was found a pretty large opening in the urethra, which communicated with a particular bag in the scrotum. The urine was discharged into this bag, and at last past out by a fistulous orifice in the scrotum, which communicated with the bag. The muscular coat of the bladder was somewhat thickened. In the left kidney there was a small abscess and two small stones. Per- haps the pressure of one of the stones had occasioned the abscess, in which it was lodged. The other kidney was tolerably sound, only in one part of its substance there was a white curdy kind of matter intermixed with little Granules of calcareous earth. O January, 1785.