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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![the fseces were usually of a solid consistency. The urine was now highly albuminous, and contained a large quantity of pus. The pus gradually diminished in quantity. On January 13 th he noticed in the morn- ing that he passed a quantity of orange pulp that he had eaten during the night. On the 20th, after much pain, he passed a small sharp triangular frag- ment of p]um-stone. He noticed at various times the passage of articles of food by the urethra, such as chopped mint, fragments of strawberries, &c. These fragments had a faecal odour, but there was never observed any of the excretion formed peculiarly in the large intestine. Towards September 1863 he so far recovered as to be able to walk with vigour, and had gained much weight; but at this time he was seized with a rigor, followed by the signs of peritonitis, death taking place in a few days. Post-mortem.—The coils of intestine below the level of the umbilicus were observed to be firmly agglutinated by old adhesions. There was no recent lymph. The csecum and adjacent part of the ileum were adherent to the bladder. Behind the bladder in the pelvis was a firm mass, six or seven inches in diameter, which on removal proved to be a large abscess with indurated walls an inch thick. The abscess was united to the bladder on its front, and above to the lower surface of the caecum and adjacent portion of the ileum. It communicated with both by apertures big enough to admit the finger ; in the lower part the abscess opened into the bladder by a very small aperture between the ureters. The wall of the abscess was firmly united to the rectum, where it lay against it, but did not communicate with it. E](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20399066_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
