The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 461
ree-fourths negro — was born and raised in Alabama, where vesical calculi are not uncommon, yet we do not expect to find many cases of stone among this race. "It is certainly very rare in the negro."1 2d. The stone was an unusually large mulberry calculus (so-called), being composed principally of… … 1. Sacculated portion ; 2. Constricted portion grasped by the walls of the bladder; 3. Auterior lower portion lying at the trigone. when first extracted, five and a half ounces. Prof. TV. H. Van Buren, in his Treatise on the Genito- Urinary Organs (p. 262), says: "The hardest stones are more apt to…
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