The safe and speedy treatment of urethral stricture by means of laminaria digitata / by Henry Albert Reeves.

  • Reeves, Henry Albert, 1841?-1914.
Date:
1870
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Credit: The safe and speedy treatment of urethral stricture by means of laminaria digitata / by Henry Albert Reeves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The object of this pamphlet is to bring before the notice of the profession a method of treating permeable organic strictures of the urethra, which I have found, and which promises to be, of great practical value. It offers the fol¬ lowing important advantages :—It is much safer than the methods of burning, cutting, or splitting, and much speedier than the plan of gradual dilatation, as a stricture barely admitting a No. 2 can be dilated to No. 8 or 10 in an hour, or but little more. The following pages consist of a re¬ arrangement and amalgamation of two papers read before the Hunterian and Clinical Societies, and contain some of the cases already published in the medical journals. As I have had several letters from medical men in various parts of the kingdom, inquiring about the “ Laminaria Dilator,” its mode of application, &c., and where it is to be obtained, and as I think that a mode of treatment which is at once safe and speedy, and which avoids the risks and delays contingent on other methods of practice, should be at once made known, I have not deferred publication until my stock of cases became more numerous, but have given them all, though few, thus early, as it is my confident belief that the