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Title: Elements of pathological anatomy
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David), 1805-1884
Subjects: Pathologic Processes
Publisher: Philadelphia : Ed. Barrington & Geo. D. Haswell
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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ck with upwardsof one thousand. This case oc-curred in a person of the lateChief Justice Marshall, and isperhaps the most remarkable ofthe kind on record. The concre-tions were all of an oval shape,and varied from the volume of apartridge-shot to that of a bean.When numerous, they are alwaysmore or less polished from con-tinued friction against each other ;and, although they generally lieperfectly loose in the bladder, itsometimes happens that they areencysted, impacted in the urethra, -a The head; l>, the caudal extremity; c, sacculated alimentary canal; d, dark lines at the junc- anterior and middle third of the animal. II,..,,1 with the orbicular mouth ;&caudal extremity, with the labiated anus; c, vulva ; d, thebv whichthe alimentary canal commences; r. alimentary canal ; /, pulsating tube in the alimen-e lobulated bodies round the commencement nf the alimentary canal; A, glandular bodies on the.■anal ■ i movable fimbriated bodies near the vulva; k, convoluted oviducts.
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718 lRINARY BLADDER or lodged in the ducts of the prostate. These concretions are of all sizes,from a hemp-seed to that of the fist; in their weight, they vary from a fewgrains to a pound or more, their average being from three drachma to an ounce. Urinary concretions are generally arranged under different heads, accordingto their color, consistence, and intimate characters. Their chemical composi-tion has attracted much attention during the last forty years, and the individualswho have particularly distinguished themselves for their researches in thisrespect are Scheele, Bergmann, Wollaston, Marcet, Fourcroy, and Prout.Much, however, as they have done, the subject is far from being exhausted ;and an interesting field is still open, which, if properly cultivated, cannot failto be of the greatest benefit. The subjoined arrangement includes the mostimportant species of urinary concretions that have hitherto been described. The uric calculus, the most common species of all, was first not

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