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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    a fulness and strength almost equal to a stream in health. If it be owing to a thickening of the membrane of the Urethra, or of the corpus spon- giosum, there will be seldom any discharge; the stream of urine will come forth very thin but strong, and it will be uniformly so, never varying into a large stream at any time, when the Bladder is ever so full, or when the inflammatory symp- toms are ever so trivial. Such are the simple traits of these diseases, and as they come before us, our judgment upon them may be either confirmed or corrected by the great assistance which we may gather from an introduc- tion of a bougie. When the disease is owing to glandular affections, attended with discharge, a bougie will, on being introduced, and of such a size as is fitting to the opening, hesitate a little, but after it has passed, and has been lodged there for some time, it will, when withdrawn, be parti- cularly loaded with mucus on those parts which touched the disease, and it will be withdrawn with facility. If the patieut's urine directly follows the bougie, his stream will come forth amended ; for the urine occupying the same space that the bougie did, the stream will keep in possession of it until it becomes faint for want of more supply, and then a protrusion will take place again. When the disease is owing to loose substances in the Urethra, a bougie will be passed with very lit- tle difficulty, and almost of any size. The stream