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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    supposing none of these objections to exist, the application of caustic should not be the first act of the practitioner, on discovering a stricture in the urethra: some previous steps should be taken, in order to insure the benefit which it is capable of affording, and that without giving unnecessary pain, or producing the serious consequences, which frequently follow it’s injudicious application. In every case of stricture, before we apply this remedy, we ought to be able to pass a bougie into the bladder of at least a size larger than one of the finest kind. This is necessary both to enable us to apply the caustic to the whole surface of the stnctuie, and likewise to put it into our power to remove a suppression of urine, should it occur, dur- ing the use of the caustic. In the gieatei number of all the cases of strictuie we meet with, a bougie above the smallest size may he passed into the bladder, dhese, theie- forc, are proper cases for the use of caustic, provided none of the above stated objections to it’s immediate application exist. If the patient bear the introduction of the bougie without experiencing pain, faintness, or great dejection of spirits from it s action, the use of caustic may commence inline-