Observations on the functional disorders of the kidneys, which give rise to the formation of urinary calculi : with remarks on their frequency in the county of Norfolk / by William England.

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[1830]
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    then passed in large quantities of a lemarkably limpid colour : this disorder in which the action of the Kidneys is so much altered, depends upon derangement of the functions of the stomach and intestines : the flatulence and constipation gene- rally accompanying the complaint proving the existence of considerable morbid irritation in the alimentary canal, the functions of the Kidneys becoming engaged through nervous sympathy. 1 have thought proper to introduce the above remarks on the pathology of Dropsy, Diabetes, and Hysteria, with the view of rendering them illustrative of the more special objects of these pages, an inquiry into the causes of calcu- lous disorders. It may, I think, be rationally inferred, that the formation of urinary calculi is no more to be explained upon principles exclu- sively chemical, than the causes of the other renal diseases ; but that all those diseases have a striking relation to each other ; similar organs and similar vessels being essentially engaged in each ; and that probably similar exciting causes may produce either Calculus, Dropsy, Diabetes or Hysteria, according to the susceptibility of the individual constitution upon which they act. The necessity of paying minute and early at- tention to the slightest symptoms of renal dis- order is sufficiently obvious: the hopeless chance of cure of chronic cases did not escape the scru-