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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    tumour, and was greatly alarmed at it. It had been treated for a length of time as an approaching abscess, and it would very frequently appear on one day as if it would burst, and on the next it would again subside. This variation was entirely under the influence of his discharge of urine through the Urethra. When that discharge be- came more difficult, the retained urine would pro- trude, and when the impediment was obviated, it again passed through the Urethra. This patient could almost always pass a bougie, which accounts for his escaping so long from his threatening fis- tula. The same discharge of mucus accompanied this case also.