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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    [ 24- ] of the faculty. Where the bladder is merely thickened and contradfed, without being in other refpedls materially difeafed, this method bids fair to be extremely ad¬ vantageous ; and in the moft difeafed ftate of that cavity cannot, under gentle and prudent management, be attended with any difadvantage. With regard to the cure of ftricStures in the urethra, which have fallen, as it were, by accident, under my notice, I muft ob- ferve, that the very excellent and fcientific treatife of Mr. Home on this lubjecl has placed the fafety and propriety of intro¬ ducing the caufkic bougie in fo ftrong and fo favourable a point of view, as com* pletely to remove all the dread and re- ludance which it is impoffible for the mind not to entertain at the firft contem¬ plation of the propofal; and I am fo per¬ fectly fatisfied with the great importance ot this mode of cure, that it will give me the fincereft pleafure if I have it in my power to fuggeft an improvement in the method of applying the cauftic, which f