A treatise on stricture of the urethra : containing an account of improved methods of treatment : with an appendix, on dilatation by fluid pressure in the treatment of urinary calculus and other diseases / by James Arnott.

Date:
1840
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Credit: A treatise on stricture of the urethra : containing an account of improved methods of treatment : with an appendix, on dilatation by fluid pressure in the treatment of urinary calculus and other diseases / by James Arnott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by touching the heated wire with seahng wax, or by means of a little ball of caoutchouc sliding upon it. When it is desirable to apply caustic to other dis- eases of the urethra, the instrument may be used as follows: after passing the conducting tube to the further limit of the diseased part, the wire may either be protruded from it, or the tube may be drawn over the wire, so as just to bring the caustic in contact with the surface to be cauterized, when both are to be extracted together, (with a slowness proportioned to the intended severity of the applica- tion,) until the caustic shall have reached the ante- rior limit of the disease, when it must be drawn into the tube. In this method there is no occasion for the projecting guide. The modification, by Professor Lallemand, formerly described, also an- swers very well in such cases, when the part to be cauterized is situated where the groove containing the caustic can be easily turned round, so as to bring it in contact with the whole circumference.] Plate II. Fig. 1. Represents, in its distended state, a com- mon urethra dilator of size No. 14 (p. 92.) The part