A critical enquiry into the ancient and modern manner of treating the diseases of the urethra : with an improved method of cure / By Jesse Foot.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1774
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the ancient and modern manner of treating the diseases of the urethra : with an improved method of cure / By Jesse Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ” ) €< mean time, while the urinary paflage remains ob- “ drufted, all attempts made by diuretics topromote the expulfion of urine are very dangerous. If in- u jedtions have been ufed to no purpofe, the ct Urethra muft be cleared by a wax-candle or “ lome fuch indrument. In cafe of a caruncle, “ gentle corrofives are to be introduced in a dry “ form, or by injedtion, fuch as one fcruple of “ precipitate, with two ounces of barley-water. “ This is an effedtual remedy in fuch a cafe, and <c operates with the lead pain of any corrofive that “ I know of. * The idea this writer had of the difeafe of the Urethra, and the mode of treatment he laid down, perhaps, when the reader comes candidly to confider, it will not be found to vary much from the prefent ufage, however didant that period was, and however unexperienced the prafti- oner mud have been at the fird appearance of a fymptom totally foreign, and to elucidate the defcription of which no light had hitherto been thrown. Ambrofe Parry defcribes the caruncle to be generated either in confequence of a fharp acrimonious humour, fbwing from the prodrate, C 2 or * Vide Armdrong’s Synopfis, page 397,