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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    SYMPTOMS. A patient generally first experiences an itching 01 smarting sensation about the frenum. This induces him to rub the part frequently, and the prepuce is thus sometimes preternaturally elongated. When very violent, the sensation has been compared to cutting with a red-hot knife. A frequency in making water, together with pain, is soon observed; and this pain is particularly great while voiding the last drops, during which the bladder contracts firmly upon the stone, and undergoes excessive irritation. The pain at the glans is most acute, from that part being a centre of sympathy for the bladder and ure- thra; that in the region of the bladder is of a more dull nature. A more remarkable and more certain diagnostic of the disease, is an irregularity in passing the urine. It first flows in a full stream, and then is suddenly stopped. This arises from a falling (as it is usually termed) of the stone against the mouth of the ure- thra. But the obstruction is rather caused by the stone being raised to this point, from the lower pos- terior bulging part of the cavity; into which its own gravity will incline it to subside, and which becomes obliterated while the bladder is contracting to void the urine: when the stone is raised to the point men- tioned, it will be disposed to remain in the funnel- like cavity, until a new distention of the bladder allows it to subside to its first situation. This symptom occurs also in that disease of the prostate, where a part of that gland is made to project into the bladder.