1. Abstract of a Paper on the Choice of Treatment of Urinary Concretions
- Author
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John W. S. Gouley
- Subjects
Modern medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Palliative treatment ,business.industry ,Urinary system ,medicine ,General Medicine ,Intensive care medicine ,business ,Surgery - Abstract
In the examination of the several modes of treating urinary concretions, the question of their indications and contraindications is worthy of special attention, since adherence to a single procedure belongs to the medicine of a remote past. Modern medicine demands that preventive measures be taken in threatened calculous affection at the first sign of coming of hyperlithaemia; that when hyperlithuria exists, medicinal treatment be resorted to; that when calculi are formed, mechanical means be promptly applied for their removal; that when the calculi have been removed, the cure be accomplished by suitable after-treatment; and that when mechanical treatment is contraindicated, a judicious course of palliative treatment be adopted. Therefore the treatment of urinary concretions is now arranged into the preventive, medicinal, palliative, mechanical and post-mechanical treatment. The preventive treatment embraces hygienic, medicinal and mechanical means. The needed hygienic observances comprise diet, exercise, ablutions and raiment. The medicinal means of prevention
- Published
- 1889