Chronic gonorrhea in the male : the difficulties of cure by ordinary treatment / by Victor Cox Pedersen.

  • Pedersen, Victor Cox, 1867-1958.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Chronic gonorrhea in the male : the difficulties of cure by ordinary treatment / by Victor Cox Pedersen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Compliments of the A /2-. Reprinted from the New York Medical October 19, 1912. CHRONIC GONORRHEA IN THE MALE.* The Difficulties of Cure by Ordinary Treatment. By Victor Cox Pedersen, A.M., M.D. New York. With the invention of urethroscopes a gen- eration ago, a step forward was taken in the diag- nosis and treatment of urethral conditions. In these urethroscopic tubes, the first defect of im- portance for remedy was inadequate light, which was removed by the introduction of practicable small electric lights of sufficient power to illum- inate lesions at close range. Another difficulty with the straight urethroscopes was that the mu- cous membrane pouts into the transverse objec- tive end in a manner to defy the control of the operator. Obviously, the next step was an in- strument, which, either by the aid of air or of water, would enable the operator to dilate the canal, push the mucous membrane more or less away from the fenestrum, and smooth it for study and treatment. The greatest advance in this detail was the Goldschmidt instrument, which was introduced a few years ago. The error of which this ingenious device is guilty is that of having an undue amount of urethral wall pre- sented in the instrument, that is, of having an unnecessarily large fenestrum. The latest and greatest gain in the direction of dilating instruments is furnished by the Buer- ger urethroscope, which has like the Goldschmidt a lateral instead of a terminal opening, but re- duced in size, so as to prevent undue prolapse of the mucous membrane into it. The system *Read before the Section in Genitourinary Diseases of the New York Academy of Medicine, October 16, 1912, and, in portions, by invitation, before the Audubon Medical Society of New York, April 26, 1912, and before the Hoboken (N. J.) Medical Society, May 15, 1912. Copyright, 1912, by A. R. Elliott Publishing Company.