Stricture of the urethra : its complications and effects, a practical treatise on the nature and treatment of those affections.

  • Wade, Robert.
Date:
1860
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    CHAPTER X. INTERNAL DIVISION OP STRICTURES—DIVISION BY THE LANCETTED CATHETER—EXCISION OP STRICTURES. Mr. Stafford's mode of treatment by the lancetted catheter—Mr. Outline's experience of this method—Disadvantages of the operation—Civiale's experience of internal section—Reybard's method of performing urethro- tomy—Leroy d'Etiolles' opinion of Reybard's operation—Excision of Strictures—This method practised principally by Phillips and Leroy d'Etiolles—Description of the cases in which it is recommended by the former—Illustrations of instruments for effecting internal division of Strictures Pages 163—189 CHAPTER XI. EXTERNAL DIVISION OF STRICTURES—PERINEAL SECTION. Mode of performing the operation in impermeable Stricture—Hazards of the procedure—Its unsatisfactory results—Professor Syme's method of peri- nea! section—Dangers of the operation—Remarks by Professors Miller and Fergusson on the proceeding—Unsatisfactory results of perineal sec- tion—Civiale's remarks on Syme's operation—Cases in which that pro- ceeding proved fatal .. .. .. .. .. .. Pages 190—215 CHAPTER XII. SURGICAL FEVER. Professor Simpson on this disease— Causes of death after surgical opera- tions and injuries — What is the nature of the malady which accom- panies or gives rise to these secondary lesions?—Signs of the secondary lesions— Treatment of surgical fever .. Pages 216—228 CHAPTER XIII. TREATMENT OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OP STRICTURE. Dilatable Stricture—Simple chronic Stricture—Impermeable Stricture— Inflammatory Stricture — Elastic Stricture — Spasmodic Stricture— Traumatic Stricture—Stricture from ulceration of the external urethra! orifice Pages 229—243 CHAPTER XIV. RETENTION OF URINE. Occasional urgency of the case—Mode of employing the catheter—The use of enemata, purgatives, warm baths, and opiates—Causes of retention of urine—The treatment to be adapted to the nature of the case. Pages 247—254 CHAPTER XV. EXTRAVASATION OF URINE. Causes of extravasation—Necessity for immediate interference—Sir B. •Brodie's remarks on the effects of extravasation—Treatment—Remarkable case of extravasation Pages 255-262