Observations on the best mode of relieving strictures in the urethra; with remarks on the frequent inefficacy, and ill effects, of caustic applications / [William Wadd].
- William Wadd
- Date:
- 1811
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the best mode of relieving strictures in the urethra; with remarks on the frequent inefficacy, and ill effects, of caustic applications / [William Wadd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![orifices. Pain had ceased; and, although in the most deplorable situation imagina~ ble, he had strength .to support life aera a month.*. From the complex nature of strictures, it must surely be admitted by every un- prejudiced mind, that even presuming the situation of a stricture to be precisely ascertained, each different form of this B * Since these pages were in the press, another instance has occurred to mein a near relation, a gentleman, about thirty years of age, whom I accidently discovered to be in great distress from retention of urine. Finding him in violent pain, and enquiring the cause, he told me, ‘* it was only a strangury,’’ which of late years, always troubled him after taking a little more wine than usual, On examining him, two strictures were found, and the bladder was felt dise- tinctly, above the pubes. It was with difficulty a smal] elastic-cum catheter was introduced, by which nearly three quarts of water were discharged. - He had not voided more than a few drops of urine for four and twenty hours; and, ’ though suffering extreme pain, was very far from supposing that any danger attended it.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3308953x_0177.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
