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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    orethra in itauni id the blade line by line. The strict- ure mi ■ lull inch in length. I ■ through it. after ten or twelvi the blad< . ince number U idder. The patient I fort in-lit, by which time I had taught him to with ince married, and is apparentlj He has, how* no children, and from the seal ol the injury, invoh minal <hi think it probable he is impotent I am inclined to think tb in itiv work M Diseases of I Sexual £ I bj this instrument How far any instrument would be safe in I m f our practitioni re, I leave my ] I i I ■ ben I u:, told by ■ celebrated Professor he used il certainly i very powerful agent, and although the practical sii.lv dispense with it in an infinite rarietj ,,, pa live ipermatorrhea, it mu t always be us< d with gi i,.,. ,i «• nearer than afortnighl between the applications, and applied over four times to any one case. I now use the simple catheter, wil poinl 'ut oft*, and s pyriform bead* d ' ''• T,|e attached i le inch of the bougie, directly behind the bead, by means of melted wax painted lightly over thai one inch; it must fii powdered very finely, and the waxed inch of the bougie rolled round in i of paper containing ti austic,and pressed on the wax bythe thumband r. When properly charged, the caustic should show the bougie, or rather the wax, distinctly through it: it should only be barely whitened with the caustic, Immediately before il is passed into the urethra, the patient should bislasl drop of water from the bladder, [f hedoes no! do thiswil solute thoroughness, the urine will enter the catheter and completely neutral- lie the caustic, rendering that application perfectly useless; indeed, it * quite a8eless, Bhould anj urine issue from the catheter, to draw it back and expose the bougie to the Beminal ducts, because there will be no causti< V\ ait, in Buch an event, for three days, and direct the patient to use more i passing bis urine, . ,, xvln sometimes happen, however, that there is s state ol partial pai of the bladder, which renders il impossible to pass all the urine; it wul drib- ,,,, fcr some time after the patient readjusts his clothing. The urethi , also become relaxed and baggy for a couple of inches from the neck; bUdder, forming . small bladder, as it were, out of the urethra, Ih» mil often allow the stylet to he projected from the catheter and the surg, on w. 1 feel no resistance ; the instrument « .11 often indeed pass directly into the bUd- de, with no resistance from the sphincter or closing mus. H •» ,u..;ithv lK, These are the worst kind o( cases and will admit ol a much uJof'I austic, Strychnine is useful in such cases; but tb»d«nands thi. i,I,.lul attendance of the surgeon; it would perhaps lead to nuschief it we ^ to give any directions for ita use, W,,. . to cautoonti, ™ i.. .ho use of our truncated caustic eatlietor, as now sold m the ah , a If