. The Medical and surgical reporter . Experience in its use in STONE in the BLADDER in my own person enables me to attest the efficacy of theBUFFALO LITHIA WATER in this painful malady. After having been long subjected to sufferings, the intensity ofwhich cannot be described, I have, under the influence of this Water, passed an ounce of CALCULI (URlC ACID), someof which weighed as much as four grains, affording inexpressible reliet and leaving me in a condition of comparative ease andcomfort. On one occasion I passed thirty-five CALCULI in forty-eight hours. The appearance of these CALCULOUSNU
. The Medical and surgical reporter . Experience in its use in STONE in the BLADDER in my own person enables me to attest the efficacy of theBUFFALO LITHIA WATER in this painful malady. After having been long subjected to sufferings, the intensity ofwhich cannot be described, I have, under the influence of this Water, passed an ounce of CALCULI (URlC ACID), someof which weighed as much as four grains, affording inexpressible reliet and leaving me in a condition of comparative ease andcomfort. On one occasion I passed thirty-five CALCULI in forty-eight hours. The appearance of these CALCULOUSNUCLEI indicates unmistakably, I think, that they were all component particles of one large CALCULUS destroyed by theaction of the Water, by means of solution and disintegration. At my advanced period of life (I am seventy-seven years and sixmonths of age), and in my feel-le general health, a surgical operation was not to be thought of, and the Water seems to haveaccomplished all that such an operation, if successful, could have [The above plate is from a photograph, and represents the exact size and shape of some of the Calculi passed by They were preserved by his son, Dr. J. Weir Weistling.] Case stated by Dr. G. HALSTED BOYLAND, late Professor of Surgery, Baltimore Medical College,Member American Medical Association. The case of Mr. C, which came under my observation as Resident Physician at the Springs during the season of 1884,affords undoubted evidence that Buffalo Lithia Water is a SOLVENT for Urinary Deposit, commonly known as STONEin the BLADDER. He was operated upon for STONE, the operation affording but partial and temporary relief. A yearafterward he visited the BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS, at the same time passing small quantities of a Urinary Dtposit,of the TRIPLE PHOSPHATE of AMMONIA and MAGNESIA VARIETY, and his sufferings such as requiredthat he should be kept constantly under the influence of opiates. In some eight weeks the solvent properties of
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