On a mode of after-treatment in operations upon the urinary organs : with illustrative cases / by T.R. Jessop.

  • Jessop, Thomas Richard, 1837-1903.
Date:
1869
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Credit: On a mode of after-treatment in operations upon the urinary organs : with illustrative cases / by T.R. Jessop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    show, that in the India-rubber tube we have a means at our command by which urelliral wounds may be rendered comparatively simple, I would take this opportunity of strongly recommendii^ its extended ap- plication in many of those cases, whether in the male or female, in which the frequent use of the catheter b called for, on account of the great comfort which will be thereby secured for the patient, and the valuable convenience it will prove to the surgeon. I have known a medical man travel thirty miles a day, during many consecutive days, for the purpose of passing a catheter for a female after parturition, and I have lately restored the perineum by the usual plastic operation in a patient, who, owing to the dbtance at which she lived, would have been compelled at great inconvenience to have left her home, had I not been able to dbpense with the necessity of regular catheterism by the use of the tube. T. RICHARDS, 37, CRBAT QUERN STREET, W.