Success and failure of electrolysis in urethral strictures : especially Dr. Keyes' method reviewed / by Robert Newman.

  • Newman, Robert, 1830-1903
Date:
1888
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Credit: Success and failure of electrolysis in urethral strictures : especially Dr. Keyes' method reviewed / by Robert Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    First. In order that the reader may judge whether Dr. Keyes kept his agreement with me: viz., “ I will ask to send one case to you. T taiU exam- ine it before it goex, and after youjrro- nounce it cured.” [Italics my own.j It is to be presumed I>r. Keyes examined the patient before he sent him to me; for he states that he found, ns I did, double linear [Italics my own] stric- ture at inches from the meatus. Next, did he wait for further exam- ination till I “ pronounced it cured?” His own letters show that he not only did not, but that he examined the pa- tient when I said the stricture was not cured, and withdrew him from my care against my will. This is confessed in the surreptitious notes of his assistant. How are we to know how many other explorations of the urethra were made by any one during the progress of our treatment ? Were I under a contract with Dr. Keyes to euro D. or pay a pen- alty for failure, could he recover the penalty under this proof? This is a test of whether I failed with electrolysis. I am informed, on submitting the corre- spondence to a legal gentleman, that he could not; because, as the man of law puts it, he has, by his own acta, put it beyond my power to carry out the contract.” My position is, as the legal gentleman says, like to “ where A agrees to build a house for B, and to have it finished in a given time, B to furnish