A critical enquiry into the antient and modern method of curing diseases in the urethra and bladder : illustrated by a great variety of cases : with a case of diseased prostate bladder and rectum, and an extraordinary case of abscess in perineo, and other destructive effects in consequence of stricture in the urethra / by Jessé Foot.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1822
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the antient and modern method of curing diseases in the urethra and bladder : illustrated by a great variety of cases : with a case of diseased prostate bladder and rectum, and an extraordinary case of abscess in perineo, and other destructive effects in consequence of stricture in the urethra / by Jessé Foot. 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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    to withdraw it: for as the obstruction is not pro- duced from any yielding substance, so will the bougie remain up the Urethra, as if it were en- closed in a tight case : it will neither be advanced forward, nor can it be withdrawn, without as much force as was applied for the introduction of it. Whilst the bougie remains in the Urethra, the thickened part can be felt externally, and when it is touched, it will convey to the finger a sense of having touched something possessed of solid hardness. These are the chief obstructions which origi- nate in the local causes I have already assigned. It must be evident, when they arise from a cause simply local, that as long as these obstructions re- main, so long will the inflammation and retention of urine be supported; and that they will only abate when the obstructions are removed. And it must be also evident, that if the obstructions be not removed in due time, the continuance of the inflammation will increase a diseased alteration in the parts which are suffering. These conditions I deem to be curable, because they were not origi- nally either produced, provoked, or supported, by any pre-disposition in the constitution. But I only meau to say, they are curable as long as the parts, when released from the obstructions, retain a power of being restored to a sound state; for if from any of these causes the disease has proceeded to that