Stricture of the male urethra : its radical cure / by Fessenden N. Otis.

  • Otis, Fessenden N. (Fessenden Nott), 1825-1900.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Stricture of the male urethra : its radical cure / by Fessenden N. Otis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reported improved. Not re-examined 20 Not improved Lost sight of 2 Still under observation ^ 33 136 Number of cases of Gleet—78—Cured Improved .... Not Improved 78 Number of cases of reflex trouble—48—Cured 29 Improved u Not improved 8 48 The point of greatest importance claimed as the result of complete division of Strictures, followed by suitable after treatment, is the Radical Cure of Stricture, Since my first re-examination of urethrae, the subject of operation by dilating urethrotomy, I have embraced every opportunity to test the 'presence or absence of recontractions of the divided Strict- ures; in each case carefully noting the results in my book of daily record. From 1872 to 1875, out of the one hundred cases operated on, thirty-five cases were re-examined at periods varying from six months to three years from the date of last operation. Of these thirty-five cases recontraction of the Strictures occurred in but four cases. Leaving thirty-one claimed as radical cures out of thirty-five cases operated on. From 1875 to 1878 the re-examinations as seen by following statement have amounted to eighty-two. In this number are included all cases presenting, previously operated on, without regard to any previous re-examinations. In the following record of the eighty-two re-examinations above alluded to, in no case has more than a single re-examination been recorded (and that the last) in any one case. The results showing seventy-four cures out of the eighty-two cases re examined 61 13 4 »