A treatise on stricture of the urethra : designed as a manual for the treatment of that complaint; and addressed chiefly to students and junior practitioners / by George Macilwain.

  • Macilwain, George, 1797-1882.
Date:
1824
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Credit: A treatise on stricture of the urethra : designed as a manual for the treatment of that complaint; and addressed chiefly to students and junior practitioners / by George Macilwain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    first and second visit, the instrument should only be allowed to remain in the canal for a few seconds; its residence there being gradually prolonged, so that at last it may be allowed to remain a few minutes with advantage. Rest will very much facilitate the favourable progress of these cases. I have, in general, however, had patients whose avo- cations denied them this advantage; I never, how- ever, neglect enjoining it where circumstances admit of their compliance. If motion should be found prohibitory of improvement, the bougie may be in- troduced the last thing at night, when the individual will often be enabled to resume his ordinary avoca- tions in the morning with impunity. Throughout the whole treatment, those measures which are either directly or indirectly calculated to relieve irritation in the parts concerned, should be rigorously en- forced, and which will be mentioned in connexion with the treatment of stricture. With regard to hydrocele, enlargement of the testicle, and abscess in perinaeo, their treatment will be mentioned after that of stricture, as it differs not in principle, whe- ther occurring from one or other affection. As I have been obliged to allude to the introduction of instruments, it is expedient to describe the mode in which this is to be accomplished in the next place.