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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    Via countryman, Mr. Sharp, in his Cri¬ tical Enquiry into the State of Surgery,’’ and still more perfectly, Mr. Hunter, shewed that the bougie was useful by its mechanical action only, and that the medicaments so praised by Daran and succeeding empirics, were unnecessary, and often hurtful. Ml’. Hunter, to whom alone scientific Surgery is, perhaps, more indebted than to all his predecessors, bestowed great at¬ tention on the subject of stricture. By re¬ peated morbid dissection, he w as enabled to expose the erroneous ideas of formey Sur¬ geons regarding its nature, and he pointed out several imperfections in their plans^ of cure. He likewise revived and im¬ proved the use of caustic for the treat¬ ment of stricture, and employed it in cases where he could not pass the simple bougie. Ilis successor, Sir Everard Home, con-