Practical observations on the nature and cure of strictures in the urethra.
- Date:
- 1809
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the nature and cure of strictures in the urethra. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![account of the nature of strictures. In doing this, I shall have occasion to dwell, chiefly, on the works of Mr. Home, to whose ex- perience and rank, I most willingly pay every deference; and on Mr.-Whately’s improved practice. With all due respect to the character of these gentlemen, I shall take the liberty of making such re- marks on their practice, as the documents given to the public in their treatises on this subject, may warrant. { The use of caustic in the cure of stric- tures, was certainly familiar to the old / practitioners, but renounced (to use Mr. Sharp’s words) “ from the difficulty and almost impossibility of properly directing the instrument.” Under the auspices, ^ however, of the ]ate Mr. John Hunter, this practice was revived; but in a very 'limited degree, and only in cases of ex- treme urgency. That it was sometimes ac-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963265_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
