An inaugural dissertation on stone in the bladder : submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York, the Right Reverend Benjamin Moore, D.D. president ; for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 13th day of November, 1810 / by Henry U. Onderdonk, A.M. member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

  • Onderdonk, Henry U. (Henry Ustick), 1789-1858.
Date:
1810
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on stone in the bladder : submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York, the Right Reverend Benjamin Moore, D.D. president ; for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 13th day of November, 1810 / by Henry U. Onderdonk, A.M. member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OS STONE IN THE BLADDEB. CALCULOUS concretions are found in many parts of the body; but their most usual situation is in the urinary organs; in the kidney, ureter, blad- der, prostate gland, urethra, and around the corona glandis. The nature of those found in the bladder, the symptoms they occasion, and the methods of relief, are the subjects of the present dissertation. Calculi in the bladder vary in size, number, and composition. The most usual sizes are between those of a musket ball and a hen's e^s- But they are sometimes much larger. At the lectures of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, a stone is exhibited, which weighs 44 oz. and is 16 inches in one circumference, and 14 in the other. An at- . . .. tempt was made to extract this 1m ^ii T If nli, /M^ but he, of course, failed, and the patient died from consequent irritation. Calculi are sometimes much smaller than the size above limited. Commonly there is but one calculus in the blad- der. Much variety however in this respect is met