Observations on the diseases and contracted urinary bladder and frequent painful micturition; with some cautions respecting the use of the caustic bougie in the treatment of strictures in the urethra. To which are added, observations on the schirro-contracted rectum. From the second volume of Memoirs of the Medical Society of London ... / [John Sherwen].

  • Sherwen, John.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Observations on the diseases and contracted urinary bladder and frequent painful micturition; with some cautions respecting the use of the caustic bougie in the treatment of strictures in the urethra. To which are added, observations on the schirro-contracted rectum. From the second volume of Memoirs of the Medical Society of London ... / [John Sherwen]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4k t *3 ] to be introduced, and return twifted into the form of a cork-fcrew, when a warm catheter of the full fize has, with a little patience and gentle perfeverance, entered the bladder^ without giving much pain* It is alfo a very curious fa6l^ that the con- trailed bladder and the real ftridlure of the urethra mutually produce each other* The former particularly, when labouring under difeafe, excites a frequent ftimulus to expulfion, which irritates the paffage^ at firfh exciting fpafmodic and fympathetic conftridlion, terminating after length of time in induration and permanent fub- ftantial ftricture. On the contrary, when this is the primary difeafe, it excites ob- ftrudlion to the paflTage of urine and femen^ and thus often occafions difhculty and irri¬ tation, with frequent inclination to the dif- charge of urine ; the confequence of which is, that the bladder, being often irritated to expel its contents, gradually contradts in its fize, and, being often fubjedled to painful efforts, thickens in its coats ; and hence it becomes a fource of much am^ biguity to afcertain the primary difeafe; which.