On the immediate treatment of stricture of the urethra : by the employment of the stricture dilator / by Barnard Holt.

  • Holt, Barnard Wight, 1816-1890.
Date:
1863
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Credit: On the immediate treatment of stricture of the urethra : by the employment of the stricture dilator / by Barnard Holt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    At' v\ (SCljOOLOF) STRICTUKE OF THE UKETHIIA. 23 catheter through the obstruction. This in- strument was retained, and replaced by a hirger size, until No. 3 cuuld be passed, when the dilator was introduced, and the No. 12 tube immediately ])assed. The same after-treat- ment was adopted as in the preceding cases, and in three months from his first visit he was enabled to pass No. 12 without difficulty. The stream was good, the intervals much longer, and his health better than it had been for the previous seven years. Another very similar case may be added— viz. : A gentleman, a solicitor by profession, was affected with a stricture of many years standing. He had for ten years experienced gi-eat difficulty in emptying his bladder, and the urine was loaded with mucus. Upon the first examination the catheter was arrested at a point three inches from the meatus ; after some trouble it passed on to a second obstruction, near the membranous portion of the urethra, through which it was impossible at the time to penetrate. Upon subsequent trials, how- ever, I got through the second obstruction, and came upon a third, nearer the bladder, which was eventually overcome. The dilator was at once introduced, and the three stric- tures split. A No. 12 catheter was imme-
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