A new critical enquiry into the ancient and modern method of curing diseases in the urethra and bladder : being an amendment of former editions, and illustrated by a greater variety of cases / by Jesse Foot, Surgeon.
- Jesse Foot
- Date:
- 1792
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A new critical enquiry into the ancient and modern method of curing diseases in the urethra and bladder : being an amendment of former editions, and illustrated by a greater variety of cases / by Jesse Foot, Surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![of the two first leading points ; these are, to ascer- tain the first cause of the obstruction, whether it was produced from without inward, or from zvith- in outward; whether from a local inflammation on the part, either through Gonorrhoea or injections, or whether from bad conditioned urine, scrophula scurvy, diseased bladder, diseased prostrate, venery, or hard drinking. To cure the former will be much more easy than to cure the latter. But be- fore any attempt be made, it is rational to aim at this knowledge of the case. I shall first of al] en- deavour to discriminate between an obstruction brought on from a local cause, and a constitutional one; and then point out what may be the nature of either. I conceive, that an obstruction produced from a local cause, must have had its origin either from inflammmation, or from some impediment which has grown out of the membrane of the Urethra; that it may be produced from a thickening of the membrane, from a thickening of the spungy sub- stance of the Urethra, from pendulous fanpi which hang loose in the Urethra, from warts in the Ure- thra, from an enlargement of some of the glands, or from a diseased state of the lacunse. I con- ceive, that when an obstruction is produced from one of these local causes, and in which the consti- tution has no concern, there will be nothing like the difficulty in curing it, as when an obstruction is owing to a constitutional cause. To](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174209_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
