Cases of the successful practice of vesicae lotura in the cure of diseased bladders / by Jesse Foot, Surgeon. The practice of vesicae lotura is thus far decisive, for cases of diseased bladders, which have hitherto been deemed fatal ones, it is a direct cure. It brings off gravel lodged in the bladder, and promises fairer than any former mode, upon the most obvious grounds, to dissolve the stone within.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Cases of the successful practice of vesicae lotura in the cure of diseased bladders / by Jesse Foot, Surgeon. The practice of vesicae lotura is thus far decisive, for cases of diseased bladders, which have hitherto been deemed fatal ones, it is a direct cure. It brings off gravel lodged in the bladder, and promises fairer than any former mode, upon the most obvious grounds, to dissolve the stone within. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ascertain what instruments were known at the time they published their cases, and by that determine the degree of improvement at least, so far as instruments have a concern in the advancement of the art. Dr. Langrish has encouraged the same idea, but to his success also, the want of proper instruments was the obstacle that rendered the practice imprac- ticable, at least upon the human bladder of a male subject* I succeeded in passing the Elastick Catheter, but not on the first attempt, injected lime-wa- ter diluted with warm water, and found what I was not at all surprised at, that the bladder would contain and retain more than eight ounces. I went on thus not every day, for' more than a month. The bladder was able to hold the injected fluid, and the Patient de* parted with it. During the practice of the Vesica? Lotu- ra upon him, the Patient regained his con- tinence of urine, and scarcely ever called without bringing with him, fragments of gra- vel which he had discharged, and some with the greatest difficulty, of an irregular figure. I recommended him still to keep his urethra open