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VESICAL CALCULUS IN NORFOLK
Author(s) -
Thomas J. M. Ridley
Publication year - 1949
Publication title -
british journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 0007-1331
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.1949.tb10746.x
Subject(s) - calculus (dental) , rationing , medicine , mathematics , dentistry , economics , economic growth , health care
Summary 1. No longer can Norfolk be considered an area where vesical calculus is common. 2. Vesical calculus in children, once very common, has now become very rare. 3. The disappearance coincides with the rise in the standard of living, and quite noticeably with the change to mixed farming in a county which was formerly grain‐ producing. This agricultural change took place between the years 1916 and 1925. 4. Rationing of foodstuffs has, if anything, still further diminished the incidence 5. At the present time approximately only 10 per cent. of patients with vesical calculi do not have an organic lesion in the urinary tract predisposing to the formation of calculus.