Cases of vascular tumour of the urethra, with remarks / [Henry Burford Norman].

  • Norman, Henry Burford, 1819-1900.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Cases of vascular tumour of the urethra, with remarks / [Henry Burford Norman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASES OF VASCULAR TUMOUR OF THE URETHRA. The object of the following communication is to give, in a connected form, a full account of a class of cases by no means unimportant or uninteresting, and of which individual examples have probably come under the observation of most experienced practitioners. To furnish this I venture not to depend on my own observations alone, but avail myself of the recorded experience and observations of many others. The inquiry into this subject which I instituted for my own information I have felt to be both interesting and profitable, and it is my desire that the result as here evolved may be so to others also. That morbid growths, answering to the title of 66 Vascular Tumours of the Urethra,” have long been known, without referring to an earlier date, we may learn from the two following quotations from eminent London surgeons of the last century. Thus Mr Sharp wrote:1—u That small excrescences may occasion violent disorders in so tender an organ as the urethra, I have seen a notable instance in the urethra of a virgin, where they grew in small quantity upon the orifice of the meatus urinarius, and for many 1 Critical Inquiry into the Present State of Surgery. By Samuel Sharp, F.R.S. London, 1750. p. 168.
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