A practical essay on stricture of the rectum ... showing the connexion ... with irritation of the lungs, affections of the urinary organs and of the uterus, with piles, fistula in ano, and various constitutional complaints / [Frederick Salmon].
- Salmon, Frederick, 1796-1868.
- Date:
- 1828
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical essay on stricture of the rectum ... showing the connexion ... with irritation of the lungs, affections of the urinary organs and of the uterus, with piles, fistula in ano, and various constitutional complaints / [Frederick Salmon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
95/246 page 77
![CASE III. Mr. , aged 19.] June, 1823.—Had been under the care of a variety of medical men for stricture in the urethra; which complaint he had suffered from, more or less, for the last twelve months. Upon examining the canal, I discovered three obstructions; the first about one inch and a half from the orifice, the second at the bulb, and a third at the membranous part of the urethra ; there was also great pain and irritation upon passing the prostate, and at the neck of the bladder. I could with difficulty pass the smallest sized bougie but two. His general health was impaired; the bowels always either confined, or much relaxed ; he suffered from piles, from pain in the loins, hips, and thighs ; his urine was scanty and high coloured, and deposited a white sandy sediment; his appetite was inordinate. I passed bougies every third or fourth day, and pursued the requisite treatment in such cases for four months, when the strictures were certainly better. At this period he contracted a gonorrhea, which prevented any further progress in the case for nearly five months ; at which time I again intro- duced the bougie, and was happy to find the ob- structions were not worse. During the inflam-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30357494_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
