The electric illumination of the bladder and urethra as a means of diagnosis of obscure vesico-urethral diseases / by E. Hurry Fenwick.

  • Fenwick, Edwin Hurry, 1856-1944.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The electric illumination of the bladder and urethra as a means of diagnosis of obscure vesico-urethral diseases / by E. Hurry Fenwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFACE. The following pages embrace the substance of two clinical lectures whicli I delivered at the com- mencement of this year at the London Hospital (January 27th) and at St. Peter's Hospital for Urinary Diseases (February 15th) upon the value of electric illumination of the bladder and urethra in the diagnosis of obscure vesico-urethral diseases (theNitze method). I had previously demonstrated the construction of the instruments required for carrying out the examinations,—the Nitze incan- descent-lamp cystoscope; the Leiter incandescent- lamp cystoscope; the Leiter incandescent-lamp urethroscope, and Schall's batteries, at a meeting of the Medical Society, January 23rd. I attempted in this way to draw attention to the great improve- ment which had taken place in the cumbersome Nitze-Leiter instruments of 1879* by the substitu- * Introduced into this country by Sir H. Thompson, ' Lancet,' 1880, April, p. 529.