A brief essay on the peculiar advantages of the flexible metallic bougies, in the treatment of strictures in the urethra, and the evacuation of the urinary bladder / by W. Smyth.

  • Smyth, William.
Date:
1804
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Credit: A brief essay on the peculiar advantages of the flexible metallic bougies, in the treatment of strictures in the urethra, and the evacuation of the urinary bladder / by W. Smyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'if: INTRODUCTION. Very near thirty years of extensive practice in London as an apothecary, &c. have afforded mb many opportunities of witnessing the dreadful sufferings of patients labouring under obstructions of the urethra; and it was my own misfortune some time ago to be afflicted with a very severe stricture, attended frequently with retention of urine, for which I could find no relief in the means recommended by my medical friends. r . - i. i t ~ it... i It is said, that “ necessity is the mother of inventionand to this circumstance alone, per- haps, we are indebted for the discovery of my flexible metallic bougies, by the use of which I soon obtained relief, and in thb course of a few weeks I was rescued from a life of misery, and restored to health and comfort.