A treatise on the diseases of the urethra, vesica urinaria, prostate, and rectum / With notes ... by J. Shaw.

  • Charles Bell
Date:
1822
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the urethra, vesica urinaria, prostate, and rectum / With notes ... by J. Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    strual discharge; therefore it was advised that a succession of common wax urethra bougies should: be used. ‘There is no reason to suppose that the bougie was used with violence; yet there is no doubt, that the operation cost the woman her life. It produced inflammation of the peritoneum, and she died in great pain with peritoneal inflam- mation. XV. 1. M. 52. The bladder and uterus of a woman, who died in the 4th month of pregnancy, from retroversio uteri and enormous distension of the bladder. N. B. This case is further illustrated by a cast and drawing. In the preparation, marked 40 c, and which is described in the text, a hole is seen in the fundus of the bladder. At the time the man was brought. into the hospital, it was suspected that the bladder had been burst by the coach wheel passing over, his belly, but on dissection the appearance of these parts differed so much from those presented in. other cases of rupture of the bladder from vio-. ' lence, that some suspicions arose, that the opening in the fundus might have been caused. by rupture