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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    and so far as the stricture is concerned he is his own surgeon. The interest of this case consists in the diffi- culty that was experienced in getting a catheter into the bladder, the strictures being of such an unyielding character as to frustrate the many attempts that were made to overcome them. The constitutional symptoms were, prior to the operation, very marked, rigors following almost every attempt at catheterism, and hernia humoralis succeeding the passage of the instru- ment into the bladder; and yet, after the strictures were fairly split, no unfavourable symptom of any kind was experienced. CASE XIL Obstinate Stricture of many years' dioration for which Mr. Syme's operation had been performed by himself —Internal Urethrotomy by another surgeon, and sub- sequently Mr. Syme's operation repeated—Return of the obstruction and inability of the patient to make water without the aid of a No. 2 Catheter—Imme- diate Dilatation—Cure. Captain T. was kindly sent to me by Mr. Cutler under the following circumstances :— Seventeen years since, he had stricture, which gradually became more and more contracted until, in 1853, he consulted Mr. Syme, who passed a No. 2 into the ])laddcr, and sub-
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