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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    [ 3*5 ] the patient, doubly cheated, firft, of pe6led relief, and, fecondly, difappointed in his phyfician’s acquiring that informa¬ tion fo effential to his future comfort: if a furgeon, he will find, upon forcing the liquid into the gut, that a few ounces will apparently pafs well, but foon a forcing downwards on the part of the patient takes place, and the whole will return dnto the bladder in his hand. He may repeat his efforts ten times, and the re¬ gurgitation will as often follow, and per¬ haps not a table-fpoonful of the enefna will be loft. At laft he may poffibly fuc- ceed, the enema may be forced beyond the obftru6led part; but it will there be re¬ tained an unufual length of time, and will come away at laft by little and little. In the courfe of this tafk he will doubtlefs * introduce his finger, and will flatter him- felf at firft that he feels a lump of hardened fceces ; but, upon the patient’s bearing down forcibly, he will diftindlly feel the . coats of the inteftine betwixt his finder and the lump, which, if it happen to be fituated on the fide of the gut in contiguity with