Excerpt from Coulson on the Diseases of the Bladder and Prostate Gland
Twenty-three years having elapsed since the publication of the fifth edition of this work, numerous alterations have now been found necessary. Nearly all the chapters have been re-written, and several additions have been made to their number. The chapter on the chemistry of the urine, with which former editions commenced, has now been omitted; the subject being too extensive to admit of suitable treatment in a work like the present. In its place will be found chapters on the anatomy and physiology of the bladder and prostate, and on the methods of examining those organs.
The importance of the preventive treatment of calculus being now fully recognized, an attempt has been made to give as complete an account as possible of the causes to which stone-formation is due, and of the conditions under which it takes place. Numerous facts relating to the prevalence of calculus in several parts of the world, and under various conditions of life, etc., will be found in the chapter on the causes of stone.
The invention, by Dr. Bigelow, of a method for the rapid removal of a calculus from the bladder, without the risks attendant upon the use of the knife, bids fair to create a complete revolution in the doctrines hitherto current with regard to lithotrity, and in the mode of performing that operation.
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