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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    / [ 46 ] of courfe every moment becomes more and more diftended : whereas, if diuretics and diluents were totally difufed, abforp- tion would confiderably relieve the patient, and, perhaps, enable him to fupport life till more effeftual relief might be ob¬ tained from mechanical means. Cathe¬ ters and bougies for a fuppreffion of urine are in the hands of eVery pra6litioner, and thefe may doubtlefs be contrived (par¬ ticularly the elaftic ones) to give relief in a fuppreffion of thin ftools. Strongly im- prefled with the importance of this idea, I beg leave to lay the following cafe be¬ fore the Medical Society, together with the difeafed part, which I have fent for their infpeftion ; as, I truft, they will clearly (hew, not only the pra6licability, but the abfolute neceffity, for fome at¬ tempt of this kind. CASE