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Medical Essays and Observations Relating to the Practice of Physic and Surgery; Abridg'd from the Philosophical Transactions, from Their First Publica - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1745 Excerpt: ... convinced, that the fame Poison is used both in Spain and Italy. Stones found in Bags formed by a Dilatation of the Coats of the Bladder; by Mr. Nourse, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Phil. Trans. JV 462. THE present Case is of one Mr. Gardiner, who was the 5th of March 1739, before the Trustees appointed by the Parliament to enquire into the Efficacy of Mrs. Stephens' Medicines, produced as an Instance, where they had been effectual in dissolving the Stone in the Bladder. Mr. Gar diner was searched by me on Saturday the 30th of December, 1738. I felt a Stone the Moment my Instrument was introduced, which was likewise felt by Mr. Wall, his Apothecary then present. The Tuesday following, he began to take Mrs. Stephens Medicines, and continued them eight Months. On the 30th of November 1739, I faw him at Child's Coffee-House, when he told me, he was quite free from his usual Disorders: I there searched him again, in the Presence of several Physicians and Surgeons, who likewise felt for the Stone, but none could be found. Mr. Gardiner dying on Saturday the 2d of January 1741-2, the next Morning in the Presence of Mr. St. Hill, and Mr. Wall, I opened his Bladder, and therein observed six preternatural Apertures of different Sizes, the biggest capable of admitting the Top of my Finger. Each of these Openings led to a separate Bag, formed by an Enlargement of the internal Membrane of the Bladder, protruded betwixt the Fibres of its muscular Coat. These Bags are to be seen on the back Part of Bladder, a little above the Veficulœ Seminales, and when viewed on the Outside, seemed to be but two, tho' they are in Number equal to the the Openings within, already mentioned, and are divided from each other by the Duplicature or Septum of the internal Membran...
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