A practical essay on disease and injuries of the bladder : being that to which the Royal College of Surgeons adjudged the Jacksonian Prize for the year 1821 ... / by Robert Bingham.

  • Bingham, Robert.
Date:
1822
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Credit: A practical essay on disease and injuries of the bladder : being that to which the Royal College of Surgeons adjudged the Jacksonian Prize for the year 1821 ... / by Robert Bingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an elastic-gum catheter had been kept in the bladder, with the hope of giving it an opportunity of healing; this had been withdrawn on the day previous to my see- ing him, in consequence of its being sup- posed to be the cause of his great pain by the distention of the parts. At the moment I saw him his sufferings were the most dreadful to be conceived, and immediately conveyed to my mind the agonies of a man passing a calculus through the ure- thra. With such an impression on my mind, I told him that I thought it probable his sufferings might arise from the portion of wounded bladder having sloughed off, and choked up the entrance into the urethra, thus giving rise to those excru- ciating pains he was then labouring under; and with the hope of relieving them and relaxing the parts, I ordered a very full dose of tinct: opii: with directions to re- peat it in half an hour if necessary. I had scarcely left him half an hour when his servant came, requesting me to return. I was exceedingly pleased in finding him so much relieved, and my opinion verified as to something having passed by the urethra. /