The medical men who have observed the effects of these waters speak highly of their salutary action in chronic catarrhal diseases of old men, in calculous affections of the kidneys, and in Polysarcia, (Obesity).
Powdered, they have been supposed peculiarly serviceable in calculous disorders.
Some use it for alleviating the dyspeptic symptoms in nephritic calculous ailments.
Where the absorption of the thinner parts of the secretion takes place too hastily in the kidnies, the hardened mucus, and consequent calculous concretions, sometimes totally stop up the tubuli uriniferi; and no urine is secreted.
In this connection the presence of magnesia in the feed or water must be named as favoring calculous formations in the urinary passages.
The disease may be acute or chronic--the first by reason of acute, adhesive inflammation blocking the outlet, the second by gradual thickening and ulceration of the sheath and blocking by the sebaceous and calculous accretion.
Foreign bodies introduced, even in the most healthy persons, are soon incrusted by calculous matter; and the rapidity of the incrustation is in proportion to the tendency to the calculous diathesis.
Many causes, which have not as yet been well ascertained or understood, seem to influence and predispose to calculous disorders.
The greater proportion of calculous cases in Wirtemberg, in the mountains of Switzerland, the Neapolitan States, and some of the provinces of England, occur in young persons, from causes which have not hitherto been explained.
To correct the calculous diathesis is an object of much importance; solution of the concretion in the bladder is now allowed to be impracticable.
In some few cases, however, the calculous diathesis continues, a new concretion is formed, and the patient again applies for relief, perhaps several years afterwards.
The calculous deposit may, instead of passing off along with the urine, be accumulated in the body, forming concretions.
It is rare that these symptoms can be elicited, since the calculous affection of the liver occurs for the most part in persons of full habit, in whom the abdominal walls are too thick to allow of the necessary manipulation.
Previous attacks of hepatic colic, and the symptoms of occlusion supervening on the last, are highly significant of calculous occlusion.
Its juice acts energetically on the kidneys, and dissolves the calculous formations of earthy phosphates which frequently form in the bladder.
Thornton says: "I have used old wine of white Currants for calculous affections, and it has surpassed all expectation.
A cupful ad libitum, in coughs, colds, calculous affections, and other diseases of the urinary organs.
In pathology, a term popularly applied to calculous matter formed in the kidneys, and passing off in the urine; and sometimes to distinct calculi or concretions in the bladder itself.
A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expellingcalculous matter with the urine.
It is used in dyeing, and has been recommended in dyspepsia, calculous affections, and chronic diarrh[oe]a.
Defn: A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
Defn: A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
Defn: A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
The Preventive Treatment of Calculous Disease, and the Use of Solvent Remedies.
He satisfied himself that urinary calculi differ completely from common stones, and that they do not exist in the food or drink which the calculous person had taken.
To avoid all false interpretations he substitutes the word duelech, to denote the state in which the spirit of urine precipitates and gives origin to these calculous concretions.
An ossification of the aorta, and several calculous concretions found in the cavities of the heart, had been the cause of the disease under which he had suffered for several years before his death.
When the tartarous matter is increased by certain articles of food, renal calculi are engendered, a calculous paroxysm is induced, and violent pain is occasioned.
In the early stages of calculous diseases, attended with irritable bladder, their free use internally and externally is frequently of great benefit.
This water is serviceable in dyspepsia, dysentery, diarrhoea, cough, and all calculous and nephritic complaints.
A most interesting and valuable article on Calculous Diseases from his pen appeared in the same volume, illustrating not only his great practical skill but his courage and quick and clear judgment in cases of emergency.
Volumes ten and twelve contained reports of his operations in lithotomy; volume eleven, a paper on Fractures and Calculous Diseases.
Much of the renown acquired for Kentucky by her surgeons was in the treatment of calculous diseases.
A paper on the bandage, another on fractures, and one on the nature and treatment of calculous diseases, embrace all his contributions to medical literature.
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