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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    [ 25 ] tention of the general contents of the bowels, every now and then efcaping pad the hardened ball, keep up at lead the ap¬ pearance of a loofenefs. Under this idea he will have recourfe to calomel or caftor / oil, and will perhaps fucceed. If the ob- ftru6lion is from hardened fc^eces^ the fin¬ ger generally is neceffary; but when it proceeds from a fchirrous gut, the ca¬ thartic may poffibly produce a plentiful difcharge of thin faeces; the fymptoms will for a time fubfide, but by degrees they will again return; there will again be a conftant needing, with flimy fcanty eva¬ cuations, and the diforder will now be pronounced a tenefrmis. If an attempt be made to throw up warm water or milk to wafh the part and lelTen irritation, the operator will experience nearly the fame difficulty in getting the liquid up which the unhappy patient hath found in ex¬ pelling the contents of the bowels. If a female affiftant perforin this office, fhe will tell an inattentive pradlitioner, that it goes up very well; but the whole will be wafted and received in the cloths, and D % the