Observations on the best mode of curing strictures in the urethra : with remarks on the frequent inefficacy, and ill effects, of caustic applications / by William Wadd.

  • Wadd, William, 1776-1829.
Date:
1812
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Credit: Observations on the best mode of curing strictures in the urethra : with remarks on the frequent inefficacy, and ill effects, of caustic applications / by William Wadd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2V an inch long', and have preserved it in spirits. It is evidently the cuticular lining of the urethra. There is sometimes a succession of these cuticles brought away.* 1 shall not dis- pute whether this succession of cuticles, as Mr. Home chuses to call them, were really such, or exudations of coagulated lymph thrown out by high inflammation, like the membrane of the trachea, which forms the croop. In either case the patient's feelings must, I conceive, be equally unenviable. Such are among the most obvious inconve- niences which may be always apprehended from the introduction of the lunar caustic; but we shall see that they are not the worst. Inflammation, abscess, strangury, retention of urine, and hemorrhage, are by no means uncommon. Mr. Home mentions indeed only two cases in which a swelling in the perinagum followed the application of the caustic. It has * Home's Obs. second edit. p. 17K