An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . s phenomenon is of rare occurrence. It has happened to the writer tomeet with two examples of it: in both instances the specimens were foundpost-mortem. The first observation was published some years ago. In thatcase the patient, who was eighty years of age, had had no bladder-symptomsup to the time of his death. The bladder contained fifty-nine stones of pureuric acid of about the size of large peas, and a considerable quantity of stonedetritus ; the larger fragments had all undergone spontaneous fracture in
An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . s phenomenon is of rare occurrence. It has happened to the writer tomeet with two examples of it: in both instances the specimens were foundpost-mortem. The first observation was published some years ago. In thatcase the patient, who was eighty years of age, had had no bladder-symptomsup to the time of his death. The bladder contained fifty-nine stones of pureuric acid of about the size of large peas, and a considerable quantity of stonedetritus ; the larger fragments had all undergone spontaneous fracture in one SPONTA NEO US FBA CTURE. 415 or both of two ways—either by radial cleavage from the center to the periph-ery or by splitting in concentric laminae. (See Plate 6.) The second casewas that of a gentleman who had suffered for many years from stone. Ati the autopsy the bladder was found to contain six stones, four of which werelarge ; five of the stones lay free in the bladder, their surfaces smooth andfacetted; the sixth (Fig. 125) was held in a diverticulum near the summit of.
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