A treatise on stricture of the urethra : containing an account of improved methods of treatment; with an appendix, noticing the application of a new instrument to the treatment of enlarged prostate gland, gleet, fistula, and other diseases of the urethra, oesophagus, and rectum / by James Arnott.

  • Arnott, James (James Moncrieff), 1794-1885.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A treatise on stricture of the urethra : containing an account of improved methods of treatment; with an appendix, noticing the application of a new instrument to the treatment of enlarged prostate gland, gleet, fistula, and other diseases of the urethra, oesophagus, and rectum / by James Arnott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From a consideration of the imperfec¬ tions of all existing means of cure in this, and in some other diseases of ca¬ nals, my brother, Dr. Arnott, some years ago, during an enquiry to what greater extent the principles of the collateral branches of science might be applied to t the improvement of medicine, contrived . the dilator, an instrument admirably cal¬ culated to accomplish the ends desired, and which obviates the defects of the means at present in use. With regard to the disease in question, it is easily passed I through the stricture, and is then dilated in any part, with any force, and to any size, and will distend at once, and almost with equal power, any number of strictures that inav exist in the canal ; being at the same time, in all respects perfectly under the control of the Surgeon. As the disten¬ sion is made by condensed air, from the elasticity of this, as the stricture yields.