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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62853	A treatise of lithotomy, or, Of the extraction of the stone out of the bladder written in French by Mr. Tolet ... ; translated into English by A. Lovell.; Traité de la lithotomie. English	Tolet, François, 1647-1724.; Lovell, Archibald.	1683 (1683)	Wing T1775; ESTC R18681	65,586	200

In a word we may conclude that the Stone is a preternatural hard body begotten of the terrestrial and slimy parts of our Food We have put in the definition the word slimy to distinguish it from Viscous because Viscous things do not harden in a place where there is moderate heat and humidity but such as are slimy like the White of an Egg by little and little grow hard and incorporate with the earthy parts they contain when they have long continued in luke-warm Liquors This proposition may be confirmed by the experience of those who render an Oyly and Fat Urine and who are not troubled with the Stone and because unctuous and viscous Medicins such as Turpentine give ease to those that are afflicted with Gravel Moreover clear and slimy Urine is reckoned among the signs of the Stone in the Bladder Authors are divided about the deciding of the question whether or not the Stone be a disease if all their reasons be considered it may take the name of a disease as well as that of a cause CHAP. V. How Stones are formed and grow in the Bladder THere needs no more but a grain of Sand or any hard Body to serve for a Center or Foundation for monstrous Stones which cause terror in those that behold them and most frequently death to those from whom they are taken The Sand and other things that are mingled with the Urine sometimes are not wholly voided out their continuance within gives time to what remains to gather together in some place and after that one hath made Water if there be still in the Bladder a little sand and slimy substance like the white of an Egg preternatural heat and the separation and evacuation of the humidity make them joyn together in the same manner as the Saline and Tartarous parts of Wine and the Urine of those that are troubled with Gravel which distills into the Bladder being mingled with other Terrestrial parts furnishes matter that joyning with that which remained there before forms and augments the Stone Experience informs us that Stones are sometimes found which are in a manner like a mixture of Sand with the Whites of Eggs having so little Solidity that one cannot avoid the breaking of them betwixt the Teeth of the Forceps If a little Sand may be the Center or Kernel of the biggest Stones a hard body got into the Bladder and remaining there may likewise be as we have seen in an Italian Souldier who to ease himself of a pain that he felt thrust into his Yard the Tag of a Point about Two Inches long which slipt into his Bladder and there continued Eight Months In the Spring of the year 1677 he came to the Hospital of the Charity at Paris where without much minding the relation he gave of his condition I was assured by the catheter that he had a Stone in the Bladder he was cut and the Iron Tag taken out about which a Stone was formed that hindred not but that it might be seen in several parts Parêus lib. 25. chap. 15. Reports a like case Fabritius Hildanus L. de Lith c. 3. col 2. writes that one of Geneva having for the space of Twenty Eight years complained of the Stone at length died and that he was found to have a Stone the Kernel of which was a Leaden Bullet petrified which he had received by a Musket-shot and retained all that while Joseph Covillart Obs VII of his operations assures us that he had seen a Stone the Center whereof was a Musket Bullet which a Gentleman had received in the Bladder Five years before he was cut of it I had in cure a young man who had been cut at the Age of Four years Old and who was troubled with a Fistula since that time he had discharged Urine unto the Scrotum where by degrees a Stone was formed about the bigness of a little Pullets Egg ending in a point like the Stalke of a Pear It cannot be determined how long time the Stone is in forming and growing that depends upon the conjunction of the parts of the Sand and the sudden and quick secretion that is made of it in the Bladder besides it may be the Stone continues at a certain Size because new Corpuscles do not always cleave and stick to it I know one that hath had one for several years seated in the beginning of the Perineum near the Scrotum without any sign of dilatation or sense of Pain The growth of Stones in the Bladder happens not without alteration of that part which becomes weaker according as the Stone increases This remark affords us a reason why the Bladder of those that are troubled with the Stone is thicker than naturally it should be which is only caused by the debility of the part because not being able to send back the superfluous part of the Blood it swells therewith as the womb in Women when they are with Child and the parts where there hath been a Fracture a great Contusion or a Wound and in the same manner as by Suppuration or the Transpiration of Wounds Fractures and Contusions or the Evacuations that happen after a Woman is brought to bed the parts return to their natural thickness so the Bladder being discharged of the burden that incommoded it and besides assisted by Medicins and a regular Diet is restored again to its former state Bev. c. 4. de Cal. Ren. Vesic CHAP. VI. Of the differences of Stones THE most considerable difference in Stones is in respect of their magnitude The least Stones of Children of Three Four or Five Years Old are like great Pease or of the bigness of Cherries Those of Seven Nine Twelve to Fifteen Years Old have them a little bigger In men grown up who are of Middle age and in Old men to the last period of life Stones are found of the bigness of a Hens Egg. I pretend not to determine the exact Size of the Stones of every Age there is no rule for it and it is sufficient to remark what is commonly observed for sometimes smaller Stones are cut from Children and Men and at other times some of such a bigness that with relation to the subject they are called Monstrous The thing contained gives sometimes the Figure to that which environs it but Stones rather take than give it The Bladder the Urine or the Pressure and Justling of other Bodies are the causes of many differences do not we see that water hollows Rocks though it fall drop by drop It may be observed when the Stone is formed by minute Bodies that have Angles the Urine or the Salt of it blunts the points of them and the wet Sand not having firmness enough lyes slat by the sides of the Bladder when there is little Urine in it and forms a flat and smooth Stone approaching to the Oval Figure of the Cavity of the place but if the minute Bodies of the Stones are Round they Roll in the Bladder from one