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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![him. All his attacks of the ischury have been re- moved by the warm bath, by the pulvis antimoni* alis with opium, and by opiate clysters. The smallest of all bougies can, with some difficulty, be passed, whenever he is at the worst, and the assistance of a bougie, at that time, is found to be very essential; for, independent of the use of it, the other means will not be effeftual. But the strange part of the case consists in this, that when he is to all to appearance well, when his stream of urine flows full, and when he has not the least irritation, no bougie has yet been passed into the Bladder, not even a catgut. The attempt has been often made by him, by myself, aud by another Surgeon also, and each without ever succeeding. CASE XIIL A person, in the parish where I lived, aged forty- five, applied to me for a difficulty in making urine. He had no discharge from the Urethra. He was a married man, and in genera] sober, but not stridtly so. He was constantly solicitous of making water. His rest at night was very much disturb- ed, and his occupation through the day interrupt- ed. I attempted to pass a bougie, but did not succeed. I then had recourse to a catgut, and with this I did succeed. I repeated the catgut, until such time as I was enabled to introduce a -ftv-v,*,,.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174209_0089.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
