Practical observations on the nature and cure of strictures in the urethra.

Date:
1809
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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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    thor, “ that it had this power; our judg- ment and common sense w^ould revolt at the doctrine of this being the proper plan to be pursued.” In all the other cases of obstruction, as tumors, enlargement of the corpus spongiosum, &c. it must be equally inejfijcacious and improper.* I shall now take leave of the armed bougie, fully and cordially agreeing with an opinion entertained b}^ many others,, that it is the most objectionable mode of applying caustic:—at the same time I am ready to acknowledge the obligation we are under to Mr. Home, for the exertion and talents with which, it is universally admitted, he has elucidated a difficult and important point of surgery. * First Lines of the Practice of Surgery, p. 42p. I
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