A practical essay on stricture of the rectum; illustrated by cases, showing the connexion of that disease with affections of the urinary organs and the uterus, with piles, and various constitutional complaints / [Frederick Salmon].

  • Salmon, Frederick, 1796-1868.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A practical essay on stricture of the rectum; illustrated by cases, showing the connexion of that disease with affections of the urinary organs and the uterus, with piles, and various constitutional complaints / [Frederick Salmon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to my attendance, he used to be necessitated to pass urethra bougies for an obstruction in that canal; but since the relief of the stricture in the rectum he has discontinued their use. CASE III. Mr. , aged 19.] June, 1823.—Had been under the care of a variety of medical men for stric- ture in the urethra; which complaint he had suf- fered from, more or less, for the last twelve months. Upon opening the canal, I discovered three ob- structions; the first about one inch and a half. from the orifice, the second at the bulb, and a third at the membranous part of the urethra; there was also great pain and irritation upon passing the prostate, and at the neck of the blad- der. I could with difficulty pass the smallest sized bougie but two. His general health was very bad ; the bowels always either confined, or much re- laxed; suffered frequently from piles, from pain in the loins, hips, and thighs ; his urine was scanty and high coloured, and deposited a white sandy sediment; his appetite was voracious. I passed bougies every third or fourth day, and followed the requisite treatment in such cases for full four months, when the strictures were certainly con- siderably better. At this period he contracted a gonorrhea, which prevented any further pro-