On tumours of the bladder : their nature, symptoms, and surgical treatment, preceded by a consideration of the best methods of diagnosing all forms of vesical disease, including digital exploration and its results, with numerous illustrations / by Henry Thompson.

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.
Date:
1884
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    incapable of giving me sufficient information relative to the presence of a considerable growth within the JplQ, 1.—Fimbriated Papilloma, with narrow peduncle. From case of Clark, xt. 38. (Museum of University College, No. ],.500.) bladder. Supposing that I could but once have put my real finger there, instantly discovering, as I should have done, that easily removable tumour : how different would have been the issue of that unhappy case ! He might have been enjoying life and health to-day. What then was to prevent me in future, under circumstances of equal gravity and like obscurity, from determining the presence or absence of such a growth, by the direct sense of touch, as I could so easily have done there, had the necessity for applying it ever occurred to me ? The questions therefore naturally presented were : Might it not be possible to examine with my finger the whole in- terior surface of the bladder ; and, if so, from what region could such exploration be most easily and safely accomplished—from the perineum, or from above the pubes ? After experiment on the dead body the answer seemed not doubtful. With a small