Bladder Stones facts

While investigating facts about Bladder Stones In Dogs and Bladder Stones Symptoms, I found out little known, but curios details like:

While sitting down while peeing is getting more and more popular, it's also good and healthy for men. It helps emptying the bladder, and thus can prevent bladder stones and urinary tract infections. Claims that it could prevent prostate problems however are yet to be verified.

how bladder stones are removed?

A dutch man named Jan de Doot, in 1651, removed his own bladder stone with a kitchen knife. He pulled it out through an incision he made in his perineum. It was the size of an egg and weighed a quarter of a pound. He lived for years after, and had the stone plated in gold.

What causes bladder stones in dogs?

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what causes bladder stones. Here are 10 of the best facts about Bladder Stones In Cats and Bladder Stones Treatment I managed to collect.

what's bladder stones?

1. 17th century Dutch blacksmith Jan de Doot allegedly removed an egg-sized bladder stone from himself using a procedure called lithotomy in which one makes an incision between the scrotum and the anus and removes the offending stone. He then set it in gold.

2. Captive 'maned wolves' were traditionally fed meat heavy diets, which caused bladder stones. In the wild, more than 50% of their diet consists of vegetable matter.

3. Doctors in the 19th century used to break bladder stones by hammerring a long nail inside the urethra until it breaks(without anesthesia)

4. Both inventors of calculus died "while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for [Isaac] Newton, a kidney stone for [Gottfried Wilhem] Leibniz."

5. In the early 18th century, to remove a bladder stone, a man drove a nail thru his urethra to hammer it in small pieces. Unfortunately, surgeries back then weren't that much more successful.

6. President James K Polk underwent surgery as a teenger - without anesthesia - to remove his bladder stones. It was horribly painful, and likely left him sterile and/or impotent.

7. Baroque Composer Marin Marias wrote a piece, "Le Tableau de l'Opération de la Taille" which translates to: "The Bladder Stone Operation", which was his musical account of unanesthetized surgery in the middle ages. Link to video of live performance with translated annotations read.