The operative treatment of the hypertrophied prostate / by Francis Sedgwick Watson.

  • Watson, Francis Sedgwick, 1853-1942.
Date:
1888
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    PREFACE. Since the time of John Hunter, isolated attempts have been made by differ- ent surgeons to remove, by operations more or less radical, the obstruction offered to urination by the hypertrophied prostate, in various ways ; for instance, Perforation of the obstructing portion by metallic sounds. Destruction by caustics (Ducamp, etc.). Hydraulic compression, Physick. Removal of median enlargement by lithotomy forceps (Covillard, Desault, etc.). Enucleation, etc.' (Sir W. Ferguson and others). Ligature and ecrasement (Leroy, d'Etiolles). Division of bar at the neck of the bladder (Guthrie, Civiale, etc.). In 1857 Mercier proposed division or removal of the obstructing median enlargement by instruments passed from the meatus, and is said to have per- formed these operations upwards of four hundred times. And later in this country Professor- Gouley, of New York, performed these operations successfully after the method of Mercier, and also through an external perineal urethrotomy. More recently, especially since the revival in Germany in 1881 of supra- pubic cystotomy by the method of Petersen, the prostate has been attacked through this route. Finally, injections of iodine into the substance of the gland (Heine and others), and electrolysis (Newman, Biedert, etc.), have been brought to bear. In the study of this subject I was led to two conclusions, viz., that in spite of