A non-surgical treatise on diseases of the prostate gland and adnexa . ndare composed mainly of calcium and sodium phosphate,both of which substances are electrolytes, and are readilydissipated by interstitial electrolysis. Owing to their exceedingly small size, they very rarelygive rise to trouble in young men; but in older men withswollen inflamed prostates, they act as foreign bodies press-ing upon the different portions of the sensitive gland, andgive rise to irritation, which is manifested by frequentmicturition, vesical tenesmus and pain in the region of the ENLARGEMENT OF THE PROSTATE.
A non-surgical treatise on diseases of the prostate gland and adnexa . ndare composed mainly of calcium and sodium phosphate,both of which substances are electrolytes, and are readilydissipated by interstitial electrolysis. Owing to their exceedingly small size, they very rarelygive rise to trouble in young men; but in older men withswollen inflamed prostates, they act as foreign bodies press-ing upon the different portions of the sensitive gland, andgive rise to irritation, which is manifested by frequentmicturition, vesical tenesmus and pain in the region of the ENLARGEMENT OF THE PROSTATE. 87 prostate, perineum, glans penis or fossa navicularis. Theyare usually rough upon their surface, and, when they de-velop to the size of a pea, often give rise to prostatic ab-scess. Fig. XIII. shows a photo engraving of specimens of theseconcretions, that were passed by a patient sixty-one yearsof age, with an exceedingly tender and irritable prostate,during the evening following a treatment by urine was passed into a porcelain vessel, and allowed. Fig. XIII. to remain over night. On the following morning it waspoured off, the residue adhering to the vessel. The vesselwas then rinsed with clear water and the residue wasscraped from the bottom of the vessel, and preserved. Itwas firmly glued together by a muco-purulent admixture,which was broken apart in pieces of different sizes, asshown. There was quite a large quantity of these pieces,making in all about a drachm. The large majority ofthese were destro3^ed by experimenting upon them with thecombined properties of different chemicals and electrolysis,in order to determine the agents that would be most activein their disintegration, and, at the same time, the least ir- 88 PROSTATE GLAND AND ADNEXA. ritating to the gland. The remaining pieces were pastedto a piece of dark paper and a photo engraving, or haUtone, made from it, as illustrated. These experiments were carried out with a one per centsolution of chl
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