A practical treatise on the diseases, injuries and malformations of the urinary bladder, the prostate gland, and the urethra / by Samuel D. Gross.

  • Samuel David Gross
Date:
1876
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases, injuries and malformations of the urinary bladder, the prostate gland, and the urethra / by Samuel D. Gross. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vidua] whose history has been narrated by De Blegny, and which is alluded to in a previous paragraph. Sir Everard Home met with an instance in which the orifices of the ejaculatory ducts were covered over by a false membrane. Hypertrophy of the urethral crest has no symptoms of its own, and hence the utmost uncertainty must always exist with regard to its diagnosis. The phenomena which attend it must be such, in the great majority of instances, as indicate obstruction to the •flow of urine, and the passage of instruments accompanied, in all probability, by an increased discharge of glairy, viscid mucus. A careful exploration with the sound, aided by the finger in the rectum, may throw some light upon the case, by pointing out the precise seat of the enlarged body; but, in general, even this fails, and the practitioner is, therefore, obliged to abandon him- self wholly to conjecture. This being the case, it is obvious that the treatment of the affection must be conducted accord- ing to the common rules of surgery; or, more properly speak- ing, upon the same principles as chronic disease of the prostate gland, the neck of the bladder, and the posterior portion of the urethra.
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