Salivation exploded, or, A practical essay on the venereal disease ... To which is subjoined, a dissertation on gleets and weaknesses ... / By Charles Swift.

  • Swift, Charles
Date:
1780
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Credit: Salivation exploded, or, A practical essay on the venereal disease ... To which is subjoined, a dissertation on gleets and weaknesses ... / By Charles Swift. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] been afflidted many years with obftru&ions in the urethra—they were particularly diftreffing to him during the late war, occafioning re¬ peated fuppreffions of urine, which at length became fo frequent, as to oblige him to carry a fmall catheter or a bougie generally in his pocket j unluckily, however, he was unpro¬ vided in that refpe£l once upon a forced march, when being attacked with a total fup- preffion of urine, and having no affiftance at hand, he was under the neceffity of taking a fmall twig from a tree, and after properly fhaping, forced it through the obftrudtions into the bladder, made a paffage for the urine, and thereby faved his life, which had often been in the moll imminent danger from the fame caufe. At the time he applied to me, the urethra was fo much obftrudted with caruncles, that I found great difficulty in paffing the fmalleft bougie, and therefore recommended the im¬ mediate application of them: his anfwer was, “ That if no other means were ufed, he was yery certain no cure would be obtained, hav¬ ing worn bougies at times for fomeyears paft I replied.