An account of inventions and improvements in surgical instruments / made by John Weiss ... with a selection of cases wherein they have been ... employed.

  • John Weiss & Son (London, England)
Date:
1831
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Credit: An account of inventions and improvements in surgical instruments / made by John Weiss ... with a selection of cases wherein they have been ... employed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On each side of such collar there is a ring, and just below the orifice of the catheter there is a small silver nozzle, in which the catheter is fixed, and from it, on each side, an arm, half an inch long, is extended, at the end of which there is an horizontal ring, similar in size to that on each side of the collar, applied round the body of the penis. With such an apparatus, all that is necessary to keep the catheter in the bladder, and always in the same state of protrusion from the urethra, and conse¬ quently having the same length retained in the cavity of the bladder, is to have narrow bands of kid leather passed through the holes in the muzzle of the catheter, and in the collar on the penis, and then to have them fastened together, with the ne¬ cessary degree of tightness. “Thus secured, the penis and the catheter become, as it were, parts of the same instrument. When the penis becomes extended, the catheter is carried along with it; when it subsides, the instrument is carried back ; but that which is a great advantage is, the compression over so large a portion of the penis, which prevents it from varying its dimen¬ sions so much as it would otherwise do, and thereby prevents a deal of inconvenience, whenever a dis¬ position for erection is produced, which not unfre- quently takes place. “Besides the advantages which I have mentioned to belong to Mr. Weiss’ flexible gum catheter, I have now an opportunity of stating, that I have c 2
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