Clinical lectures on the surgical diseases of the urinary organs / by P.J. Freyer.

  • Freyer, P. J. (Peter Johnston), Sir, 1851-1921.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Clinical lectures on the surgical diseases of the urinary organs / by P.J. Freyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fever may also occur, particularly should general cystitis supervene The prognosis in this disease is always grave, even when, as in the cast.- under consideration, the ulceration is limited in extent. The tubercle has a tendency slowly, but irre- sistibly, to invade the adjacent mucous membrane, or to appear in isolated patches at a distance from the scene of its original invasion, the ulceration thus gradually extending. The advent of general cystitis adds greatly to the gravity of the disc What is tin treatment indicated in the case before us? In all cases of tuberculosis of the bladder general hygienic and medical treatment is »>f the utmost importance, and in its early >tages this alone, without the aid of local measures, is frequently sufficient to arrest its progress and enable the patient to throw off the disease. Treat the case ^\\ general principles, as if it were one of tubercle of the lungs or other organ. Ther< ar< cases on record, and I have seen such in my own practice, in which patient- suffering from tubercle of the bladder have completely recovered ; and I consider that, in this case, the disease being apparently limited, there very prospect that under prop, r treatment the ulceration mil be arrested and the disease eventually cast off. Cod-liv< r oil, iron, strychnine, carbonate ofguaiacol, and Other tonics, ild be employed, together with a nutrition- diet; and the patient should live in the open air as much as possibl a dry, bracing (Innate would. <>f course, be advisable. There considerable quantity of pus in the urine; consequently, urotropin will be administered in from 5 to - grain d< thre times daily, freely diluted with water, this being the mo t - Hii M m drug we p F01 .ill forms ol pyuria. Salol .nid boiic a< id are al 0 impoitant djugs in tin d S<>u • insf 1ll.1tion -1| 1.i(l(it« 1] in emulsi<>n 1 ame miK h into \ < <; ue, 1 < >un< e of a 5 to 10 per < ent. K>luti< >n ol
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