A treatise on the diseases of the urethra, vesica urinaria, prostate, and rectum / by Charles Bell.

  • Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the urethra, vesica urinaria, prostate, and rectum / by Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    but only to incline you, by your own experience, to believe that a great part of the profession may have done what you have done. Here is a case of prolapsus ani,—a case of stricture in the vagina,—a common case of stricture of the urethra,—and the manner of death, and the appearances on dissec- tion, have been exactly similar in all. We have in all of them inflammation on the peritoneum, and pus scattered over the abdominal cavity; but the symptoms have been so insidious, the approach of death so gradual, and the indications on dissec- tion so slight, that, without the accidental combi- nation of these bodies in circumstances so nearly similar, we might have had doubts of the abdo- minal inflammation having proceeded from the disorder of the canals, and I should have altoge- ther failed in my object to-night. For I wish to convince you as it were through your own ex- perience, rather than by my assertions, or my ar- guments, how much judgment, more even than dexterity, is necessary to the safe performance of the operations on the passages. If you previously knew that passing a common probe into the vagina, or tying a portion of the rectum, or passing a wax