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 / [William Smith].

  • Smith, William, D.D.
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 / [William Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    worse^ or at least greatly increase in obstinacy, and require a much longer time in the use of re¬ medies, than if proper efforts had been sooner made for its reduction, Wiseman, Daran, and many others, have published a variety of cases which furnish us with sufficient proof of the validity of these assertions, by shewing the painful, dangerous, and some¬ times fatal consequences which have arisen from neglect alone, by deferring the proper local appli¬ cations to too late a period, whereby an obstinate disease of the bladder has been brought on, inflam- mation for instance, and gangrene of different parts ; all which, the reader will be convinced from the mere perusal of the cases, might have been prevented. I It appears very obvious, that urethral obstruc¬ tions will not only occasion troublesome and pain¬ ful micturition, but have sometimes brought on such morbid sensations, that the cause has been attributed to some affection of the bladder, kid¬ neys, or ureters, insomuch, that incautious prac¬ titioners have concluded their patients were la¬ bouring under the stone and gravel; hence the real cause of the complaint has been overlooked, and a total suppression of urine has been the con¬ sequence, producing effects which gave such ge¬ neral disturbance to the system, as to become irremediable