An essay on the chemical history and medical treatment of calculous disorders / by Alexander Marcet, M.D.

  • Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822.
Date:
1817
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Credit: An essay on the chemical history and medical treatment of calculous disorders / by Alexander Marcet, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bedded in the folds of the bladder (as we observed above in reference to Plate IV.), they produce comparatively but little incon- venience, and may even for some time remain unnoticed by the patient himself. I must not omit to mention, in addition to this description of symptoms, that the ten- tency to form calculi, in whatever part of the urinary passages, is generally attended with indications of a deranged digestion, especially with acidity and flatulence, and sometimes with a distressing degree of irritation in the stomach. Great as the evils I have just described must be, the constitution often bears them for*a considerable time with a remarkable degree of impunity. The constant irritation, however, thus kept up in the urinary pass- ages, at last produces a thickening of their coat, and alters their structure; and this irritation being communicated to the neigh- bouring parts, a tenesmus often occurs, which adds not a little to the patient's torture, especially as all these symptoms are much exasperated by exercise, such, in particular, as riding on horseback, or in a rough car-