Volume 1

Practical observations on the treatment of strictures in the urethra, and in the oesophagus / [Sir Everard Home].

  • Everard Home
Date:
1797
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of strictures in the urethra, and in the oesophagus / [Sir Everard Home]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There is a circumstance which readily _ accounts for the opinion of strictures being of some thickness, this is, two ‘strictures forming within an inch of each other, and | the space between them becoming narrower than the rest of the canal, although not so much so, as at either of the strictures. This is frequently met with. © ii The stricture is generally all round equal-_ ly, the ridge projecting to the same distance, | from every side of the urethra: It some- times happens that it only projects from one side. I have met with cases where there were three strictures, and all’on the same — side of the urethra, the other being per- fectly smooth. This is a fact which cannot be ascertained after the canal is laid open inthe dead subject, but is readily discovered in the living body, by passing a soft bougie through the stricture, which take&S an exact impression’ of itsydus Hes bee wlineb Jafls Inthe first elites of this sald 1 sliniktes] strictures into spasmodic and ‘permanent, to express two Very diflerent stages of this