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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    tiiiued the practice by caustic, and soon extended it to all strictures, in preference to the common bougie, because he found % that it generally cured more quickly and / permanentl}^ About twenty years ago, he recommended the adoption of the plan in a voluminous publication, the cases re¬ corded in which, proved, that, at least, some'of the objections against the prac¬ tice were unfounded, and some of the advantages attributed to it certain. After this publication, the practice by the caus¬ tic became pretty general; but from the many mischiefs that followed it, in the hands of even the most expert Surgeons, it has fallen again into disuse, and prac¬ titioners appear now to have returned to the former temporizing plans by the bougie, and the similar instruments, the catheter and sound. The chief of these mischiefs, viz. hemorrhage and false pas¬ sage, arise, however, from defects in the