Etherization, with surgical remarks / by John C. Warren.

  • John Collins Warren
Date:
1848
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Credit: Etherization, with surgical remarks / by John C. Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    driven back by the contractions of the urethra, carry- ing along the inner stone which formed the nucleus. The protracted etherization left behind it no distin- guishable symptoms. The boy experienced a moderate invasion of fever, without any abdominal disturbance, or any remarkable local inflammation. The urine flowed through the penis on the second day, but the swelling about the urethra prevented its re-appearance for a week. Since then, it has gradually resumed its natural passage, and now passes wholly by the urethra, though the external wound is not entirely healed. With this exception, the boy is quite well, and on his feet. The bi-lateral operation employed in this instance, is, in my opinion, the safest and easiest, as I have stated in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, and which, I am glad to find, has found favor with some able surgeons of the south and west. In the cases where I have employed it, the external wound has the disadvantage of healing more slowly than after the lateral operation.