A treatise on stricture of the urethra : containing an account of improved methods of treatment : with an appendix, on dilatation by fluid pressure in the treatment of urinary calculus and other diseases / by James Arnott.

Date:
1840
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Credit: A treatise on stricture of the urethra : containing an account of improved methods of treatment : with an appendix, on dilatation by fluid pressure in the treatment of urinary calculus and other diseases / by James Arnott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ceding observations, to inquire whether or not a substitute be desirable for lithotomy, an operation attended with much pain and danger under what- ever circumstances it may be performed. In the Journal Medical de la Gironde, Vol. V. p. 133, for March 1826, there is a similar proposal, which was lately pointed out to me by a friend conversant in the modern medical literature of Europe. It was made by M. Guerin, an eminent Surgeon at Bordeaux, and celebrated for his skill in lithotomy. He relates, that being himself attacked with symptoms of stone, he began to study whether a safer and less painful mode of relief might not be substituted for lithotomy ; and came to the conclu- sion, that the further part of the urethra might be gradually opened to a great extent by means of the swelling from moisture of a root prepared for the purpose, inserted into it from the perinseum, and that the stone might then be broken and extracted piecemeal if too large for removal in its entire state.* * Les nombreux succes qu'on obtient a Bordeaux dans I'ope- ration de la taille, depuis plus dc trente ans qu'on y opere ex- clusivement par mes precedes, ne me laissaient plus de doute sur la certitude d'avoir atteint le plus haut degre de perfection auquel I'art pouvait arriver, lorsqu'un evenement, qui m'interressait particulierement, mc faisant examiner les choses de plus pres