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.

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    ten applications; after which, the white bougie passed, with perfect ease, into the bladder. From the time the second stri6lure was de- stroyed, he had not any return of his supposed ague; the thickening of the scrotum and pre- puce gradually subsided, and became perfectly natural in size and appearance. The fistulae completely healed, without any application to them: the pain and inconvenience, which he formerly experienced in walking or sitting down, entirely left him; the urine passes with- out pain, in a full stream, is soon discharged, and the inclination to void it not oftener than five or six times in the twenty-four hours. April, 1806. He has not experienced the smallest inconvenience since the bougie first went into the bladder, which is now more than eighteen months; and, I understand from him, that he now has a perfeft ere&ion of the penis, which he had not experienced for a long time before the strictures were removed. The local effefts of strictures are not confined merely to the urethra and bladder, but also ex- tend to the preputium, and often produce a partial, and sometimes complete, phymosis. When the phymosis is only partial, the treat- ment of the stri&ure may be taken up without F 3