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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1761
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lifts any farther Diftenfion, with a Force fupe- rior to that Power which keeps the Stricture of the Urethra, or the Stricture of the Neck of the Bladder contracted 5 in confequence of which, the Urine is expelled involuntarily, and by Drops, fo that the firft Symptom of a Recovery is an Incontinence of Urine. When the PaiTage is once open, it continues to flow • fafter than it is- brought from the Kidneys into the Bladder, fo that the Bladder con- trading, recovers its Tone, and the Inflam¬ mation of the Stricture in the Urethra, or the Stricture in the Neck of the Bladder abating, the Patient returns into the Situation he was in before the attack. This is often the Cafe, where no Bougie has been em¬ ployed 5 but it is poffible, that a Bougie by irritating the Urethra, may promote the Con¬ traction of the Bladder, and I fuppofe when¬ ever a Bougie produces a fudden Evacuation of Urine, it muft be by this means, rather than by the Difcharge. Indurations, and Fijlulas in Berinceo, are a frequent confequence of Obftrudions in the Urethra, and in the Neck of the Bladder ; fometimes there are feveral Fiftula%, and though they acquire their Name from being fuppofed to be feated in Perinceo \ yet fome of them may be alio in the Scrotum, fome near the Anusy and