Observations on the application of lunar caustic to strictures in the urethra and oesophagus / by M. W. Andrews, M.D.

  • Andrews, M. W. (Magnus Whittern), -1835.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Observations on the application of lunar caustic to strictures in the urethra and oesophagus / by M. W. Andrews, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    another; all that is meant is, to point out the error which may be committed, the mode in which it may be guarded against, M and when it has taken place, how it is to be remedied. The following case is the worst of the kind I have ever seen, as no instrument could be passed into the bladder; it will explain the extent to which a false passage may be made, without the surgeon's being aware of it, and shew how slight a degree of disturbance it may produce in the neigh- bouring parts. A gentleman, who had suffered from irri- tation in the bladder, consulted his surgeon* who, upon examining the urethra, foun^l stri&ures, which were considered to be the 46 cause of his complaint, and the use of the caustic was adopted for their removal. Se- 44 veral stri6tures were removed in succession, 44 and the bougie, after the caustic had been 44 applied fifty or sixty times, was made to pass eight inches from the external orifice, but could not be made to reach the bladder. Under these circumstances I was consulted, u and had no hesitation in declaring the bougie must have taken a wrong direction;