Copy 1, Volume 1

Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the prostate gland. Illustrated by copper plates / by Everard Home.

  • Everard Home
Date:
1811-1818
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the prostate gland. Illustrated by copper plates / by Everard Home. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [82] keep its form when opposed by a certairt degree of resistance, it cannot be conducted into the cavity of the bladder. Such cases are by no means uncommon, and in some of them, if the surgeon is not in possession of such an instrument, he will be unable to give his patient the necessary relief without having recourse to the operation of puncturing the bladder, a very severe one, when compared with the passing of a flexible gum catheter. The following case will put this in a still clearer light. A gentleman, 70 years of age, had a diffi- culty in making water, voiding only a few drops at a time, and constantly straining to force them away, so that the pressure kept up at the neck of the bladder, was very great; this produced spasm in the urethra. As the bladder was loaded with ‘water, it became absolutely necessary that the urine should be drawn off. The gen-- tleman lived 40 miles from London, and called in my assistance: I went provided with catheters of different kinds, but as it