Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 386. Sections and external appearance of the calculi in Mr. Mackenzies case,formed round horse-beans, introduced into the bladder in the manner described.—(R. Mackenzie).—Real size. Fig. 387. Prostatic calculi, exhibiting the concentric laminse, and nuclei of thesebodies.—(Wedl). 250 diam. CONCEETIOXS. 279 which mineral matter is imbibed in a fluid state, so as gradually toconvert them into calculi. Hairy Concretions.—Balls composed of hair are not unfrequentlyfound in the stomach and alimentary canal of the inferior animals,
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 386. Sections and external appearance of the calculi in Mr. Mackenzies case,formed round horse-beans, introduced into the bladder in the manner described.—(R. Mackenzie).—Real size. Fig. 387. Prostatic calculi, exhibiting the concentric laminse, and nuclei of thesebodies.—(Wedl). 250 diam. CONCEETIOXS. 279 which mineral matter is imbibed in a fluid state, so as gradually toconvert them into calculi. Hairy Concretions.—Balls composed of hair are not unfrequentlyfound in the stomach and alimentary canal of the inferior animals, es-pecially such as are in the habit of licking their hairy coats. Rare. cases have been recorded where sim:lar masses have been found in thestomach of the human subject. One of these has been published byDr. Ritchie of Glasgow * It was that of a factory girl, aged 21, whohad contracted the habit of pulling hair from her head, while employedat work, and swallowing it. She had ileus, followed by symptoms ofrupture of the intestine. On dissection, the mass here figured, forminga mould of the stomach, composed of moist female hair, was discovered, * Monthly Journal of Medical Science, July 1849. Fig. 388. Mass of hair found in the human stomach, as described above. Infe-riorily it was encrusted with a layer of altered food, a fragment of which has beenremoved towards the left, showing the hair benuath.—{Ritchie).— Three-fourths thereal size. 280 PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE. and two smaller ones were found in the intestines (Fig. 888). Similarcases with hairy concretions are recorded by Pollock* and Vegetable Fibrous Concretions.—These are only found in
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