On the extraction of foreign bodies from the female bladder / by Patrick Heron.

  • Patrick Watson
Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the extraction of foreign bodies from the female bladder / by Patrick Heron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have recently met with three cases of foreign bodies lodged in the female bladder; and, as they serve to illustrate the subject under con¬ sideration, I shall in the first instance narrate them. Case t.—^J. D., aged 23, was brought to me at the Royal Infirmary on November 15th, 1865, by a gentleman attending one of the dis¬ pensaries in this city, on account of retention of urine. The patient, a nervous, excitable young female, was accompanied by her mother, from whom I ascertained that she had not passed water for upwards of two days. On examination, the fully distended bladder was easily recog¬ nised, rising prominently above the pubis as high as the umbilicus. The introduction of the catheter was resorted to at once, and readily enough effected, in spite of the retraction of the orifice of the urethra. As the bladder did not regain its tone for some time after this extreme disten¬ sion, she required the introduction of the catheter twice a day; but, as she ceased to return to the hospital after a week, it was presumed that she had regained control over her bladder. At the end of a month, Fragments of gum elastic and metallic female catheters, extracted at different times from the bladder of Case i.
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