Researches and observations on scrofulous disease of the external lymphatic glands : With cases, showing its connection with pulmonary consumption and other diseases / By Thomas Balman.

  • Balman, Thomas.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Researches and observations on scrofulous disease of the external lymphatic glands : With cases, showing its connection with pulmonary consumption and other diseases / By Thomas Balman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the friction of such a mass of concrete matter floating in and otherwise incrusting the mucous surface of the bladder. The ahsence of any traces of ulceration in any of the most depending parts of this viscus, and the ap- pearances above mentioned, tend to justify the safety of the practice of introducing solvents for calculi into the living bladder, and the very slender prohability of their removal being accomplished, when considerable, by medi- cines acting through the medium of the stomach.* * Some very interesting observations relating to the decom- position of phosphatic vesical calculi are recorded by Dr. Hoskins in the Philosophical Transactions for 1843.