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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    ,1 C 44 ] • I have already mentioned a certain ac¬ commodating difpofition in the animal ceconomy, by which it becomes recon¬ ciled to new fituations. It is worth while to pay more attention to this circumftance here, becaufe upon this accommodating difpofition I build my hope of rendering the laft moments of the patient fupport- able. As the gut contracts, the contents of the bowels are impeded in their pro- grefs, they undergo a degree of fermenta¬ tion, the fceces become thinner, a large quantity of air is generated, the bowels are thereby gradually diftended, and the patient goes on with little inconvenience for a confiderable length of time. At laft there is a total luppreffion of ftools, and, foon after, the ftomach begins to regur¬ gitate. That progreffive motion of the bowels, called periftaltic, ceafes to operate downwards; by degrees it takes a contrary turn, and a£ls as regularly upwards; and even now, under thefe ur-happy circum- ftances,*if the patient be left to nature, he will feed, he will be nourilhed ; the dif- charges of urine and perfpiration will go on.