Diseases of the bladder and prostate and obscure affections of the urinary organs : with diagrams illustrating the author's treatment of stone without cutting and numerous cases of speedy and permanent cure with the spray treatment given up as chronic and "incurable" / by David Jones.
- David Jones
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Diseases of the bladder and prostate and obscure affections of the urinary organs : with diagrams illustrating the author's treatment of stone without cutting and numerous cases of speedy and permanent cure with the spray treatment given up as chronic and "incurable" / by David Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![off eight ounces and a half of decomposed urine. I can solemnly declare that I have not for years enjoyed such excellent health as I am doing at present. I beg to add that my age is 74. donhentica Should anyone desire to have further particulars of my case, I shall be most willing to communicate with them privately, for which purpose I subjoin my address. Genrl. Sir F. H. [Here follows the address, which the writer will forward to any enquirer.,] To Dr. David Jones, 15, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, W. Patient con- February, 1890.—Up to this date Sir F. H. has ex- tinued well. . , ... penenced no return of his former disease. No. 74. Stricture of long stand- ing. Hospital and private treat- ment. Stricture—cure without cutting. J. A., aged 48, unmarried. This patient's sufferings extended over a period of 22 years, originating in an attack of gonorrhoea; the ordinary treatment (by stimulating diuretics, copaiba and cubebs, &c.) had been applied. The acute stage passed, a gleet remained, for which he was treated by injections of nitrate of silver and other strong astringents, such as lead and copper. Soon after using these, acute orchitis followed and laid him up for several weeks. The inflam- matory symptoms subsiding, the discharge returned and he became as bad as ever. St. Bartholomew's, Guy's, and Charing Cross Hospitals were then resorted to, but with little or no benefit. The patient's own statement further details consultations from time to time with private doctors (as he termed them) without any real benefit, but with varying consequences, involving a large amount of continued suffering—fresh symptoms follow- ing remedies applied—skin disease, serious disturbance](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20416957_0388.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
