Volume 1

The surgical works of John Abernethy.

  • John Abernethy
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The surgical works of John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    sity to discharge the urine, which disturbed him every second or third hour during the night. At last a complete retention took place when he was in the country ; and a surgeon attempted to introduce a small ca- theter, which however was prevented, by a stricture, from passing farther than six inches. The pMient immediately came to London, when I directed him to take some castor oil, and to bathe the perinaeum and adjacent parts frequently with warm water. After sometime the urine flowed again, and he was relieved from the present urgent symptoms. In two days I examined the urethra, andfoundastric- ture at six inches, through which I could not pass even a very small bougie. I touched this with the argentum nitratum ; but the appli- cation did not produce any alteration in the circumstances of the disease. On the third day thebougie passed on toastricture, atseven inches, which was also touched with caustic; and the same treatment was repeated with another stricture, at the distance of half an , inch from this. The bougie now passed throuo;h all the strictures, and entered the prostate, when I was obliged to withdraw it imme-
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