Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . duced the foreign body him-self, which had slipped from his fingers, !Fi£r 385 and entered the bladder two years pre-viously. One of the most extraordinary cases of this kind is that record-ed by the late Dr. R. Mackenzie, in which a man in a state of intoxica-tion was, during a quarrel, knocked down by his comrades, who cruellythrust several horse-beans into his urethra. Six months subsequently hewas operated upou for stone, and five calculi removed, each of which onbeing cut open was found to contain a bean, surrounded by a shell
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . duced the foreign body him-self, which had slipped from his fingers, !Fi£r 385 and entered the bladder two years pre-viously. One of the most extraordinary cases of this kind is that record-ed by the late Dr. R. Mackenzie, in which a man in a state of intoxica-tion was, during a quarrel, knocked down by his comrades, who cruellythrust several horse-beans into his urethra. Six months subsequently hewas operated upou for stone, and five calculi removed, each of which onbeing cut open was found to contain a bean, surrounded by a shell of Fig. 382. The triple phosphate surrounding a mulberry concretion of oxalate oflime.—(Liston). Fig. 383. Nodulated mulberry calculus composed of oxalate of lime.—(). Fig. 384. Phosphatic calculus formed round a fragment of uric acid calculus, pre-viously broken up by lithotrity.—(Syme). Fig. 385. Phosphatic calculus formed round a piece of slate-pencil, which hadbeen introduced into the bladder through the urethra.—(Syme).—Real 278 PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE. triple phosphate* (Fig. 386). Dr. Dunsmure has also related a case oflithotomy, where the nucleus of the stone originated in the mans fallingwith violence across the gunwale of a boat in such a way as to laceratethe perineum, and force a portion of his woollen trousers into the blad-
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