Cases of rupture of the urinary bladder, with remarks. / By Eben Watson.

  • Watson, Eben.
Date:
1848
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    CASES OP RUPTURE OF THE URINARY BLADDER, WITH KEMAEKS. By EBEN WATSON, A.M., M.D. [from the monthly journal of medical science.] {Read before the Glasgow Medical Society, October 17, 1848.) Considering that rupture of the bladder is not an extremely rare occurrence, there are very few cases of it on record. The reason has been supposed to be an unwillingness on the part ©f surgeons to publish cases so frequently terminating in death, notwithstand¬ ing their best efforts to preserve the patients alive. The great fatality of this lesion ought, however, only to increase the interest with which cases of it should be studied, while the opportunities thus afforded of obtaining, by inspection after death, exact infor¬ mation regarding the nature of the injury sustained during life, ought to be the more fully and anxiously improved. Such cases are not, on the other hand, so frequent in their occurrence, that the experience of any one man can be sufficient to establish on a firm basis the pathology, prognosis, or treatment of this grave injury, either for his own guidance or that of other practi¬ tioners. Such a happy result can only accrue from a careful in¬ duction of numerous and well-observed cases. Nor do we know of any better source from which to derive the required data than are the records of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, which, from its position in the midst of a populous mineral and manufacturing country, receives into its wards the subjects of more numerous and severe accidents than any other hospital in the kingdom. The following cases occurred during my residence in the Infir¬ mary as house-surgeon. They are given in nearly the same words in which they were originally inserted by myself in the hospital journals :— Case 1.—William M‘Culloch, aged thirty-two, a carter, was admitted into No. 11 Ward of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, on the evening of August 13,^ t844. SUTHERLAND AND KNOX, 23 GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH,