Some abnormal conditions of the sexual and pelvic organs, which impair virility / by Edward H. Dixon.

  • Dixon, Edward H., 1808-1880.
Date:
[1861?]
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Credit: Some abnormal conditions of the sexual and pelvic organs, which impair virility / by Edward H. Dixon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]_, Obstruction. doHnr or surgeon; any person I common intelligence should at once pi trdol without hesitation, and what ia more, as soon as the patient is insen- sible, he should, without the least fear, attempt very slowly and gently to pass ill Dumber four catheter of gum elastic. Be can do no possible harm, and victim the greatest anguish, and the danger of a bui bladder. I can not o »« it is, that people who call themselves men, <h> not instruct their patients, especially in the country, where it is often < 1 i(li«-nlt- • medical aid, in this simple and necessary act No man worthy tho mune would tail to do it, nor should Instruction in the use of ether any longer be withheld in our public Bchools. It isthemosl effectual remedy for spasmodic own to man. When our profession elevate their code of ethi the height, and adapt it to the breadth of the requirements of humanity, then they will have less chum' to complain Of the ignorance and ingratitude of their nts. If i I - fail in enabling the patient to pass his urine, no further time must be lost The surgeon (not the physician) must be called. We will en- deavor to illustrate why we say this, by a few type cases. It is customary, in all the authors on Stricture we have ever read, not only to publish a great num- ive all the receipts, and the regimen adopted in each case, and to dismiss the patient generally as cured by the same. We have no i of having cured a single case, in thirty Ave years' experience by the method of dilating with bougies; whenever the patient has not left ui •d di e d imanded payment of a bill, or because his disease re- turned after a little relief by dilating the Btricture, keeping his feet warm, and . intemperance and other debauchery, he has either abandoned u> because he was promised a cure by medicine, or be has abandoned bimi i If pair at the result of all treatment It is only Bince we have adopted the aent of incision by the Urethrotome, that we have derived any satisfactory result- ; we now know that we alter the action of the nerves and mi note blood' la, that m picture, by keeping alive the irritation and inflamma- tion, thus thickening the membrane lining the urethra, and closing it up. When you shall have read the authors on Btricture for the past fifty years, ill learn that it is not extravagant to say that their treatment for its radi- ire is entirely worthless and absurd. Mr. Syme, of Edinburgh, within the - changed all our ideas, and created the therapeutics of stricture. The canny old Scot has left us nowhere. Paltnam qui meruit n our motto. I will now present you, from a great number, three cases that will illustrate each variety of stricture. EXAMPLES OF STKICTl Ki:. Case Fii:st.—Complete obstruction, of two days' duration, from irriUble stricture. Entering my office some time after the evening hour, I found sev-