Injuries and diseases of the genital and urinary organs / by Henry Morris.

  • Sir Henry Morris, 1st Baronet
Date:
1895
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    perinaeuni; morphia suppositories of half, to one grain in very acute cases, or by subcutaneous injections of morphia; all articles of diet likely to make the urine irritating, such as highly-spiced food, coffee, alcohol in all its forms, etc., must be avoided. Irrigation of the bladder, so good in chronic cystitis, must, as a rule, be shunned in the acute; although benefit follows in some cases from the injection of a few drops of a solution of nitrate of silver, gr.j to 3 iv, increasing to gr. j to 5,], as recommended by Sir Henry Thompson. Cystotomy may be required to relieve tenesmus and to give rest by drainage to the bladder. Mr. R Harrison relates that in the case mentioned above, in which the entire mucous mem- brane was exfoliated, perinseal cystotomy was rendered neces- sary by the fetid character of the urine, and the recurrence of retention from impaction of the detached membrane in the urethro-vesical orifice. A drainage-tube was placed in the bladder. Immediate relief and rapid recovery followed. Dr. Cabot, of Boston, successfully treated by supra-pubic cystotomy a case of what he calls pachydermia vesicae— namely, cystitis attended with the formation of false mem- brane (Amer. Journ. Med. Sciences, 1891).