The pathology and treatment of stricture of the urethra, both in the male and female : Being the treatise for which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1852, was awarded by the College of Surgeons of England. / By Henry Thompson.

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.
Date:
MDCCCIV. [1854]
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Credit: The pathology and treatment of stricture of the urethra, both in the male and female : Being the treatise for which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1852, was awarded by the College of Surgeons of England. / By Henry Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE. The following work consists of the Treatise to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1852, has recently been awarded by the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The subject named by the Council, and announced for public competition in the Summer of 1851, was, “The Pathology and Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra/’ From these terms it may he inferred that a comprehensive view of the various important lesions commonly understood to be included under the denomination of Stricture, as well as of others which are intimately related to them, was required by the Council. In the following attempt to execute a task of such magni- tude and extent, the Author is painfully conscious of the degree to which he has come short of its accomplishment. The subject is one which embraces very wide and important relations. The possession of manual dexterity, and a prac- tical familiarity with the best mechanical appliances on the part of the surgeon, are absolutely indispensable to the suc- cessful treatment of stricture; but these alone constitute