A text-book on gonorrhea and its complications / By Georges Luys ; Translated and edited by Arthur Foerster with 200 illustrations and 3 coloured plates.

  • Luys, Georges, 1870-1953
Date:
1913
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Credit: A text-book on gonorrhea and its complications / By Georges Luys ; Translated and edited by Arthur Foerster with 200 illustrations and 3 coloured plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    Oberlander's urethrotome is really ]a urethroscope which carries a groove on its lower wall, in which a small special knife can be easily moved in all directions. One examines the part which one wishes to incise with the urethroscope, passes the knife, and cuts in sight as desired. The little Fig. 186.—Oberlander's Urethrotome. knives are of different shapes; some are triangular, others are very thin and pointed. The former are used for deep surgical incisions, the latter for superficial scarifications.^ Oberlander lays special stress on this method. He also recommends the Fig. 187.— Different Blades used in Connection with Oberlander's Urethrotome. application of a jfew electrolytic punctures to these rebelhous constricting fibrous patches in order to bring |about [their jretraction. At each visit ten to twelve different places can be submitted to electrolysis. In each instance Fig. 188.—Oberlander's Urethrotome fully mounted. the action of the current diffuses, and affects the parts within |a circle of 0'5 centimetre radius around the prick of the needle. In this way all these hard infiltrations can be destroyed and be made to disappear. 1 Menahem Hodara, Traiteme.it de la Blennorragie Chronique, Ann. Oenilo- Urin., September, 1895, p. 787.
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