The passage of air and faeces from the urethra / by Harrison Cripps.
- William Harrison Cripps
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The passage of air and faeces from the urethra / by Harrison Cripps. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to each other, and to the abdominal parietes, that even after death the point of communication could not be found amongst the mass of dense adherent tissue. During life, the chance of doing any good would be too remote to set against the risk of fatal damage during the operation. Palliative Treatment.—If the patient has refused colotomy, or been advised that no operative interfer- ence is likely to be of avail, it remains to consider what can be done to make his condition more tole- rable. A simple dietary, consisting almost exclusively of milk, appears in some cases to have afforded con- siderable relief, and certainly a trial should be given to it. In some instances, it has been noted that particular articles of food materially aggravate the distress. In one of my own cases it was very re- markable how quickly alcohol, in a]most any form, aggravated the condition, an acute burning or smarting pain being complained of after taking a teaspoonful of brandy or half a glass of wine. A similar susceptibility in this respect is mentioned in another case. The position of the patient has at times a marked influence on the amount of ffecal matter passed into the bladder. In one case, for example, whilst in the recumbent position the patient suffered but little, scarcely any matter pass- ing into the bladder, though when in the erect posture considerable quantities did so. In another patient, it was noticed that the quan- tity was small as he lay on the left side, but was increased when in the opposite position. It is often noted that the sufferer's condition varies a good deal according to the state of the bowels. When these](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20399066_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
