The homoeopathic treatment of surgical diseases / by J.G. Gilchrist.

  • Gilchrist, J. G.
Date:
1873
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Credit: The homoeopathic treatment of surgical diseases / by J.G. Gilchrist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    (c) Vesical Catarrh is very similar in many respects to the last mentioned. The symptoms are, a constant desire to urinate, the urine having an ammoniacal and fetid odor, mixed with a large quantity of stringy glutinous mucus, which gives it a turbid ap- pearance. On being allowed to stand it separates into two parts, the upper part being clear, but the lower is composed of a thick mucus or pus, which sticks tenaciously to the bottom of the vessel, and on being poured out hangs in long stringy masses from the edges. The urine is also frequently mixed with urinary deposits, commonly of the phosphatic variety. This condition is accom- panied by local irritation and constitutional debility. Death is often the result of this form, and the signs of its approach are thus described by Erichsen : The tongue becoming brown, the pulse feeble, and these are usually associated with urinary poison- ing of the blood, the mental manifestations becoming dull and obscured, and the body emitting a strong urinous odor, and the skin a dense clammy sweat. Tumors of the Bladder, Tumors of the bladder are fungous or polypoid in their charac- ter, and may be also either benign or malignant. The symptoms often resemble stone so closely, that some of our most distinguished surgeons have made that error in forming a diagnosis. Usually the symptoms are, pain on urinating, tenesmus vesicae, bloody or high - colored urine, deposition of a sediment in the vessel, and lastly, a sudden stoppage of the stream when urinating. If it be malignant, the same, or nearly the same symptoms may be looked for, with an increased amount of general or constitutional disturb- ance. It often happens that these growths become encrusted with urinary deposits, and from this fact the click., supposed to be characteristic of stone, can readily be produced by introducing the sound. This deception is further increased in the case of polypi, and more particularly if the pedicle be long, by the sound apparently passing completely around the foreign body, just as it would if it were stone. Under these circumstances many people have been cut for stone, and the mistake not been discovered until the bladder had been opened. Even if this operation has been performed under this mistaken diagnosis, it is not such a very mortifying occurrence, for the probabilities are, that when a
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