An improved method of treating strictures in the urethra / By Thomas Whately.

  • Whately, Thomas, -1821.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An improved method of treating strictures in the urethra / By Thomas Whately. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is often a mucous sediment deposited in the urine, and sometimes a glairy gelatinous fluid mixed with it. These effects of stricture re- main, in many bad cases, as long as the stric- tured part of the canal continues in an equally contracted state. In these cases, however, as well as in the slighter, it is no uncommon thing for the patient to be attacked with paroxysms, during which all these symptoms are increased. But they are not permanent, continuing at times not more than a week; at other times only a day or two. When the symptoms are permanent, they proceed, I apprehend, from spasmodic irritation, ac- companied with some degree of inflammation in the bladder, excited and kept up by it's repeated efforts to empty itself of it's contents. When they are not permanent, the attack may be considered as being of a more purely inflammatory nature. These last symptoms being produced by occasional causes, as cold, violent exercise, or irregularity of living, may be very severely felt for the time they continue. In this case the complaint is but temporary; the bladder being more regularly and perfectly emptied, as soon as the acci- dental cause that produced the symptoms ceasevS to operate. Some patients are occa-