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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    I feared the bursting of the bladder. A.8 soon as he was unconscious, I took a number six catheter, an without the least difficulty, the urin< with Buch force as to pass over my shoulder, as I was kneeling on the floor by the side of the couch on which he lay. His relief was immediate and com- plete. I i issed a number ten catheter of gum elastic, and secured it with ;i the doctor suggesting it, and I being unwilling to risk the chance of his passing urine during the night, as he lived in Brooklyn. Saving com- menced tl I was obliged, in justice, to finish it, as it created two ene- mies, out of the three gentlemen concerned in it—how justly, you may judge, oldest of the three now laughs, and cites it as a case of their own stupid- ity ; but he lias retired, and being a man of the world, can afford it. The patient could not endure the presence of the catheter longer than next morning, which was what we both anticipated. The reader can judge of my surprise, when I again found him the next evening, this ti unattended, in my office, unable to pass a drop of urine, the same efforts having been made by two of the gentlemen, unsuccessfully, with no chloroform, to draw off the mine. The same treatment as before, wasagain successful. I sent him home with the catheter in his possession, and positive direction i to Btaj in bed with all the clothing that he could pile on, warm bricks to his feet, and a tea iful of sweet Bpirits of nitre in a half-tumbler of flax-seed tea every two ~; if ,n'lt *0UM . p| 3] nful of laudanum in a'wine- tarch, warm, to be thrown up the howel, in ;,., hour the catheter number four to be gently tried under the cover, bo as to avoid chill. If that ,li'1 t : '■» be used, and number six tried, as I had do,,,-, -him frankly that he never would he cured, hut constantly Liable to just ■ cold feet, and general chills, to which he ntly liable ing up and supplying an engine—till the morbid action r interrupted by dividing the stricture with the Urethrotome. I de my opinion frankly to the gentlemen, and not he unduly influ- Be went home and required no further use of the catheter, or Qt except the warmth in bed and the spirits of nitre, the stream nailer than before. The two gentlemen opposed the operation' m that dilating the stricture would cure it, and tie operation was /and unwarrantable. He had now lost all confidence in his ad- | icst, a fortnight after his last visit, I divided the Btricture in presence of Dr. Henry, of this city. The other gentlemen were not umted, because they did not approveof the operation. The patient was ether- ized, although it is not necessary; there is no pain in the internal incision and any ease ill which the smallest bougie can barely enter the strict ingle •ne, can be divided, generally at the first attempt. He, however, desired the ether, and it was given in anticipation of spasms, as he had suffered so much. Immediately we placed a number twelve catheter in the bladder the full s,ze of the urethra. Not a bad symptom followed. U, was not confined an hour m bed, and in a week he resumed his employment, being directed to