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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    ing- Stone. The experiments whicli I made with a double catheter on calculi out of the bladder, en- couraged me to hope lor the happiest results. The use of this catheter may be yet extended. In hemorrhage from the bladder an uniform stream of cold water or astringent lotion would probably be the most effectual remedy. In the Lancet for Sep- tember 29, 1838, there are two interesting cases of this affection related, in which the hemorrhage was suppressed, in one instance, by an injection containing tannin, in the other, by repeated injec-' tions of iced water. Hemorrhage from the womb or rectum might be checked in a similar manner.] Fig. vi. the Syphon Catheter, for drawing oti' the urine constantly and completely after the operation of Lithotomy and puncturing, or any wound of the bladder, so as to prevent the urine escaping by the wound.—(See page 139.) [Professor Jules Cloquet proposed a contrivance on thi? principle, and for the same purposes, in 1824.]