Cases of the successful practice of vesicae lotura in the cure of diseased bladders / by Jesse Foot, Surgeon. The practice of vesicae lotura is thus far decisive, for cases of diseased bladders, which have hitherto been deemed fatal ones, it is a direct cure. It brings off gravel lodged in the bladder, and promises fairer than any former mode, upon the most obvious grounds, to dissolve the stone within.

  • Jesse Foot
Date:
1798
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Credit: Cases of the successful practice of vesicae lotura in the cure of diseased bladders / by Jesse Foot, Surgeon. The practice of vesicae lotura is thus far decisive, for cases of diseased bladders, which have hitherto been deemed fatal ones, it is a direct cure. It brings off gravel lodged in the bladder, and promises fairer than any former mode, upon the most obvious grounds, to dissolve the stone within. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    declined in the very face of success beyond all possibility of contradiction. A case pain- ful as the Stone, and that never could have been cured by any other method, then or now known ; and a case fully and completely cured, by the unequivocal process of inject- ing the bladder. The want of a better Catheter than the Metallick or the Flexible one by Heister, might have been a cause for the practice having been discontinued for a former part of the time, since this case was published by le Dran. It might have been owing to ne- cessity. But I fear that modern practice, since there has been a choice in the Elastick Catheter, may stand rather self condemned ; seeing that by that very instrument, every former difficul- ty is obviated. It is not without contri- tion, that I painfully deplore the recollection of a great variety of cases, which would have undoubtedly succeeded by this treatment, that found no relief from any other, and that are now beyond the reach of human power. My atonement must rest, on my rinding out the right method at last, and the crime of past inattention must be redeemed by future ex- piation,
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