Diseases of the bladder and prostate and obscure affections of the urinary organs : with diagrams illustrating the author's treatment of stone without cutting and numerous cases of speedy and permanent cure with the spray treatment given up as chronic and "incurable" / by David Jones.

  • Jones, David.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Diseases of the bladder and prostate and obscure affections of the urinary organs : with diagrams illustrating the author's treatment of stone without cutting and numerous cases of speedy and permanent cure with the spray treatment given up as chronic and "incurable" / by David Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Enlarged prostate regarded as incurable. The writer's efforts towards improved treatment. The Spray treatment. Enlarged prostate radically cured by it. me till I was so reduced as not to be able to put one foot before the other without great pain and difficulty. They said there was a fleshy substance growing in the bladder (utterly unwarrantable con- clusion), and they decided that I should be blistered all' over the back. (Case No. 29.) For enlargement of the prostate, of not infrequent occurrence and already described as among the most painful of human afflictions—in aggravated cases with burning, straining, forcing, at intervals of a few minutes, a sensation as- of passing molten lead, or of red hot needles thrust through the neck of the bladder—they confessedly have no remedy at all. According to them, the patient has but one resource—endurance; and the disease but one termination—death. Years ago the writer was painfully struck with these failings, and accordingly set himself to the best of his energy and ability to the possibility of improvement. To attentive pathological study and observation, particularly as to the detection of stone, he sought to- add remedies in bladder disease which, instead of being, wasted on the disturbance of the general system, should go direct to the bladder itself, where alone they could give hope of efficacy. The eventual result was The Spray Treatment, the mechanical operation of which is illustrated at pager 53. By this means medicaments of his own selection, which he has not as yet disclosed, are conveyed immediately to the affected part. Employed tentatively at first, their success was speedily established, and as proved in this work by a multitude of well-authenticated cases, their efficacy is beyond doubt or cavil. Enlarged prostate, for example, authoritatively declared as incurable by any known means, is shown by manifold and authenticated cases to be cured, not merely relieved or temporarily eased, but radically and permanently so as during a long life never to return. In cases uf bladder disorder generally the Spray treat- ment, with medicaments varying according to the case