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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    [ 43 ] celTary to make the patient fenfible of it, and thoroughly underhand it, that his ideas may go along with ours, and co¬ operate in the future plan for his comfort. Nor will this be very eafily accompliihed; it muft appear ftrange to the patient, who has long known himfelf to be afflibled with a loofenefs, to be told that it is* ne- ceffary, during the remainder of his life, to confine himfelf to that regimen, which common experience points out as moft likely to procure an open belly. And, even admitting that we have gained over the underftanding of the patient, we fhall be liable ftill to interruption, from the intr.ufion of well-meaning friends and neighbours, with whom a perpetual war muft be waged. I Food which contains the greateft quan¬ tity of nouriftiment in the fmalleft com- pafs fnould be ufed, cautioufly avoiding every article of this kind which is of a conftipating quality. It fliould be taken frequently, but fparingly. All folid food, and particularly bread, pudding, and fa¬ rinaceous.