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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    I proceed, in the next place, to relate what I have observed respecting the treatment of, the disease, which I have been describing. The three first cases show, in a striking man- ner, the advantage derived from the intro- duction of bougies ; and I have seen many similar ones, though I scarcely think so de- monstrative of the utility of this mode of treatment. I know some patients with oc- casional attacks of dysury, and who have this tenderness of the remote part of the ure- thra, in whom the passageofabougie, together with warm bathing of the perinaeum and ad- jacent parts, very speedily relieves a disease, which had proved very tedious and distress- ing before these measures were adopted. If a bougie be introduced, for the first time, in a case of this description, severe pain is felt, and faintness is occasioned: if this operation be repeated three days afterw’^ards, the pain per- haps is much less severe, and it may dimi- nish at each succeeding introduction of the instrument. Should this be found to be the case, surely nothing need be farther said in commendation of this mode of treatment. The morbid sensibility of parts is dimi- o 3 nished
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