A treatise on the practice of medicine, for the use of students and practitioners . ® if & Fig. 38.—Various Crystalline 1.—Uric Acid. No. 2.—Urate of Soda. No. 8.—Cystine. Wo. 4.—Oxalate of Lime. No. 5.—Dumb-bell Oxalate of Lime. always come on abruptly. There may be experienced some deep-seatedsoreness in the lumbar region, then a quick movement as in kicking,sneezing, coughing, etc., may give rise to a sudden increase of the sore-ness, soon developing into acute pain. Whether the onset be sudden RENAL CALCULI. 503 or gradual, the attacks are not of equal severity. The difference we
A treatise on the practice of medicine, for the use of students and practitioners . ® if & Fig. 38.—Various Crystalline 1.—Uric Acid. No. 2.—Urate of Soda. No. 8.—Cystine. Wo. 4.—Oxalate of Lime. No. 5.—Dumb-bell Oxalate of Lime. always come on abruptly. There may be experienced some deep-seatedsoreness in the lumbar region, then a quick movement as in kicking,sneezing, coughing, etc., may give rise to a sudden increase of the sore-ness, soon developing into acute pain. Whether the onset be sudden RENAL CALCULI. 503 or gradual, the attacks are not of equal severity. The difference wemay suppose to be due to the varying sizes of the calculi. If a calculusbecome impacted, it will ulcerate through and give rise to fatal perito-nitis. In a few cases the calculus has occupied a number of days inmaking the journey through the ureter, the most severe suffering, as isusual, occurring at last, owing to the increasing narrowness of the lowerureter. If repeated attacks occur, the rule is that the succeeding onesare milder, but this depends upon the si
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