The electric illumination of the bladder and urethra : as a means of diagnosis of obscure vesico-urethral diseases / by E. Hurry Fenwick.

  • Fenwick, E. Hurry (Edwin Hurry), 1856-
Date:
1889
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Credit: The electric illumination of the bladder and urethra : as a means of diagnosis of obscure vesico-urethral diseases / by E. Hurry Fenwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but this had since increased in size to that of a child's head. When she was seven years old the urine became thick and milky. Associated with the tumour was an extensive ruevus invading the posterior aspect of the thigh. The swelling had a distinct limit, and appeared to be also na3void in character. There was probably some communication between the swelling and the lymphatics around the kidney.* Cystoscopy.—Bladder healthy, but surface blurred with milky deposit. Jets of milky fluid were distinctly seen to issue from the right ureter, and to mix rapidly with the surrounding medium. The electric cystoscope, therefore, obviously tends to replace the large collection of instruments or procedures which attempt the differential dia- gnosis of the source of hematuria and pyuria.f It cannot altogether displace such instruments as Tuchmann'sJ: which aim at obtaining urine direct from either male kidney, for before an attempt is made to excise a kidney, the existence and working capacity of its fellow gland must be ascertained.§ Upon the capacity of the latter to bear the double burden depends the advisability of the proposed nephrectomy. Now, the4 stress * Compare snl borta dissed ion of Dr. Stephen Ekfaokenzie's case • Path, Trans.,' r< L exxiii, pL urii, p 894, L882. f GT. autnor, Suction of the Male Ureter.-. ■ Lancet,1 Sept. Ml.. L886, i>. 529. Km.urn. • Die Diagnose der Blasen and Nieren ECrank- beiten/ Berlin, [887, § Of i; w. w. ii. •• Extirpation of Kidney/1 'Annals <>i' Bur- I L886 i> 817, roL i.