Dr. Thornton says: "I have used old wine of white Currants for calculous affections, and it has surpassed all expectation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Its juice acts energetically on the kidneys, and dissolves the calculous formations of earthy phosphates which frequently form in the bladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

It is occasionally caused by calculous concretions in the bladder, -- which should be removed, -- causing very acute abdominal pain to the animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

Medical examination carried out at the end of June - beginning of July 2009 revealed gallbladder stones and pancreatitis and calculous cholecystitis were diagnosed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Amsterdam: The Murder of Russian Rule of Law] Reference

Particles of stagnating Well-waters, and the calculous Concretions of others; and therefore such waters ought to be mistrusted more than any, where they are not pure clear and soft or that don't arise from good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The London and Country Brewer] Reference

Also employed as remedies against calculous disorders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of the Lectures on Chemistry, Mineralogy, & Geology, Delivered at the University of North-Carolina, for the Use of the Students. [1]-44 p.] Reference

The amount of calculous/physics used in biology is enormous.    From Wordnik.com.  [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference

Then an additional malady (apparently some calculous one) comes on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference

The root is diuretic, and in the form of infusion, is said to be very serviceable in calculous complaints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Chinese, peculiar liability of, to calculous disease, 248; considered a delicate diet by Australian cannibals, 327.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference

The leaves act as a powerful diuretic, and are employed in calculous, nephritic diseases, diabetes, gout, and small-pox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

I have seen the skin become rapidly clear under these circumstances In diseases of the kidneys, gravel, calculous disorders, chronic inflammation of the bladder, &c., the cure is frequently complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warm Springs, Madison County, Western North Carolina. Howerton & Klein, Proprietors. Hot, Warm, Tepid and Cold Baths] Reference

Gesner speaks of the good effects of the fruit in calculous disorders, and Linnæus extols its efficacy in gout, having, he says, prevented paroxysms of it in himself by partaking of this fruit very freely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

It was a deposition of calculous particles within his heart, caused by an obstructed circulation of the blood; and, unless a miracle should be wrought for him, there was danger that the malady might act on the entire substance of the organ, and change his fleshy heart to stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")] Reference

The causes most likely to produce this complaint, are wounds or bruises of the kidneys, calculous concretions lodged in them, the too free use of active diuretic medicines, great exertions in lifting, violent and sudden strains, exposure to cold when over heated, and lying on the damp ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference

It is generally believed to succeed the acute rheumatism of the same part, and that some coagulable lymph, or cretaceous, or calculous material, has been left on the membrane; which gives pain, when the muscles move over it, as some extraneous body would do, which was too insoluble to be absorbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Though the proximate cause of the formation of the calculous concretions of the kidneys, and of chalk-stones in the gout, and of the insoluble concretions of coagulable lymph, which are found on membranes, which have been inflamed in peripneumony, or rheumatism, consists in the too great action of the absorbent vessels of those parts; yet the remote cause in these cases is probably owing to the inflammation of the membranes; which at that time are believed to secrete a material more liable to coagulate or concrete, than they would otherwise produce by increased action alone without the production of new vessels, which constitutes inflammation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

And every Korean is good at calculous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dealbreaker] Reference

Mastin, Dr.C. H., on calculous disease, 248.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference

In lieu of metrical embellishment, sibilant consonants ( "is outside," "I see ... that's it") surround the liquid and calculous "uncomplicated," "leak" and "looked," seamlessly reinforcing the poem's pissifaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference