Surgical observations on the more important diseases of the mucous canals of the body : being a second edition of the author's treatise on stricture of the urethra ; to which are added, practical observations on contraction of the oeosophagus and rectum; an essay on the diagnosis of hernial and other tumours in the groin ; with remarks on tracheotomy, as connected with the treatment of chronic laryngitis / by George Macilwain.

  • George Macilwain
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1830
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Credit: Surgical observations on the more important diseases of the mucous canals of the body : being a second edition of the author's treatise on stricture of the urethra ; to which are added, practical observations on contraction of the oeosophagus and rectum; an essay on the diagnosis of hernial and other tumours in the groin ; with remarks on tracheotomy, as connected with the treatment of chronic laryngitis / by George Macilwain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. XI. ON RETENTION OP URINE. PAGE Propose only to consider it in connexion with Stricture 133 Symptoms - - - - - -135 Early introduction of Instruments disapproved of - 136 Treatment — Leeches — Warm Bath - \39 et seq. General Blood-letting-—Purgatives—Opium—Antimonium Tartarizat. If unsuccessful, introduction of Catheter may be attempted - - - - ]42 et seq. Of the employment of Tobacco in Enema - - 144 CHAP. XIL OF ABSCESSES AND FISTULiE IN PERINEO, &c. Irritable Urethra alone will give rise to them—Sores on the Penis sometimes produced by Irritable Urethra - 147 Effusion of Urine — Consequences and treatment 150 et seq. CHAP. XIII. OF STRICTURE IN THE FEMALE, WITH CASE - 159 CASES OF STRICTURE. Case I. Irritable Urethra - - - -166 II. Irritable Urethra, where the morbid sensibility pervaded the Canal generally - ■- 169 III. Irritable Urethra, with Fistulae in Perineo - 172 IV. Sore on the Penis, dependant on an irritable con- dition of the Urethra - - - 1^4 V. Illustrating the treatment of ordinary Cases - 177
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