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■ Parti. Oil the formations, appearance, and sitiiallon 

 of the Stone. 'The author iufprms us, that the main 

 "result of these Inquiries has been , the Stones is £or- 

 "med geuerally in very small part, and often in no dc~ 



:^gret whatever, from tlie urine, as secireted by the Kid- 

 ''neys, but chiefly from mucus produced from the sidea 

 "of the different cavities through which the Urine pas- 



■ "ses; that certain stimuli applied to tho whole, or part 

 "of the Bladder, give occasion to the productions of cal- 

 "culi from the whole, or part affected; that the proxi- 

 '"mate cause of the disease, or Stone, is a morbid State 

 "^f those membranes, and consequently of their secreted 

 "juices; that the operation of various remedies for the 

 "Stone depends on their immediate action on those mem- 

 "branes, by correcting their secretions, or diminishing 

 ''their irritability" e) Sententia Floriani Caldani de struc- 

 tura Vesicae urinariae cribriformi /) nostras hypotesi fa- 

 veret. Proinde Lithogenesin Effectum non Causam, Cy- 

 stitldis, autumamus ; hac vero ratione, suam aliorumqu« 

 multorum sententiam intellectam vult Voigtel. g) 



e) The new London Medical Journal for the Year 1792. 



Part llie first pag 74. .^a^T'tiv: ' ) *. , 



/) Opuscula Anatomica c. Tabb. Paduje i8o3 recensita ia 

 ,1^,^ Colling, gelehrt. Anzeig. jgoG N:o i56 , hie illic ambiguji 

 explicationis. 

 g) Cit. Ilandb. d, path, anatptn, B. III. pag. 520 confer not, 

 , *) infra. ^ v , ~,;,^'., 



