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The Dublin journal of medical and chemical science
The Dublin journal of medical and chemical science Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: phenomenon, of human teeth being found to constitute the nuclei of stone in the bladder. In attempting to account for the presence of the teeth in this si... more »tuation, it has been supposed that they may have been swallowed and so have passed by ulceration from the intestinal canal to the bladder; but this mode of accounting for the phenomenon, is the more difficult, from the absence of all antecedent symptoms of abdominal disease, and the occurrence having taken place in the female ; unless indeed we may suppose the communication with the bladder to have occurred far up in the intestinal canal. The generation of the teeth in a diseased ova- rium, and their transit thence to the bladder, is a supposition equally difficult to reconcile with the history of the case; and we are left but one mode of accounting for the occurrence, by supposing that the teeth may have been introduced by the patient herself; an explanation for which there is no sanction in any thing that could be gleaned from the history of the case; but which certainly derives countenance from the records of some extraordinary cases of tiiis description. I have not been myself, however, led to adopt this opinion, but rather incline to the idea of the teeth having found their way from the intestinal canal into the bladder; though nothing in the history of the case enables me to account for their having done so. What was of most consequence to the patient, however, she was discharged from the hospital perfectly well, on the 12th of October; after having been nine days under treatment. Art. III. -- Medical Cases and Observations. By Charles Warburton Riggs, Surgeon to the Mullaglass and Cam- lough Dispensaries CONTRACTION OF THE CHEST, CONSEQUENT ON PLEURITIC INFLAMMATION. Samuel White, aged 27, became a patient ...« less