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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    [ *2 ] patient to the moft imminent danger, to no manner of purpofe ; perhaps, after he have given him the ftrongeft affurances of a fafe, fpeedy, and effedlual cure. There is no admeafurement of the length • of the urethra from the extremity of the glans to the neck of the bladder that can' be depended on for preventing a miftake of this kind, becaufe an horripilation of half a minute is capable of making an alteration of two inches or more in the length even of an urethra already flaccid. \ The bell: mode of proceeding then muft be, whenever the armed bougie is to pafe within the verge of the fphtnSler ani, to accompany it with the finger in the rec¬ tum^ which will, if neceflary, difl:in6lly trace its progrefs, till it touches and is loft in the proftate gland. r If I am fortunate enough to guard the un- w’^ary or inexperienced praftitioner againft making an erroneous prognoftic to the de¬ triment of a patient labouring under cir-^ cumftances