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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    pelled, as it is in a state of health, nor is the Blad- der in a condition for the expulsion of it, even if there were a full quantity contained within it. The internal membranous coat of the bladder will be thickened by inflammation, the capacity of it will be lessened, and it will be deprived of all power of yielding to distention. I have seen the Bladder after a long inflammation more than half an inch thick, and I have seen the cavity of it re- duced so small as scarcely to admit a pullet's egg, or to contain an ounce of water. Irritation, on the sphincter of the Bladder, and parts around it, from a constant propensity to get rid of the urine, will produce an enlargement of the prostate gland, a thickening of the membrane of the Urethra, and many more deplorable symp- toms. A bougie can generally be passed, but it will afford only a temporary relief. It will only take off the pressure of the enlarged gland, whilst it remains up the Urethra; on withdrawing it, the gland will again obtrude upon the passage, and block it up. When the disease has not commenced within the Bladder, but in the prostate gland, the same symptoms will be experienced, and the pressure of the prostate on the sides of the Ure- thra, and on the sphincter of the Bladder, will ren- der the case so complicated that it will be difficult to say whether the disease began in the prostate or in the Bladder, whether it was without or within the sphincter of the Bladder. As