A case of diseased prostate, bladder, and rectum, successfully treated / by Jessé Foot.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A case of diseased prostate, bladder, and rectum, successfully treated / by Jessé Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    taining stools was a continued theme of com- plaint, I began to question him very narrowly upon this part of the case ; and it appeared from his answers that his bowels had been disordered three months before his difficulty in urining came on ; that he did not recollect at any time that he had, or was capable of discharging, a figured stool of natural dimension, such as confir^Tis the bowels to be in a sound state. Besides, he answered, that, although he had often taken clysters, they were generally returned without Jceces. I passed the largest urethra bougie I had, and found an obstruc- tioti mtherectum, about five inches from the a7ius* Small rectum bougies were from this time daily passed, gradually increasing their sizes. This he adroitly did himself. From this time his stools evidently began to be more compact, more ready in coming away, and more easy in their evacuation. This complaint of his bowels had been on him more than eighteen months, as his prescriptions for it proved, by their dates. Towards the latter end of the third week, his recovery was no longer a matter of doubt. Seven ounces and a half of warm water could be injected with ease, and drawn off without pain. The urine began to change from the wheyish appearance it had to that of a sound state. Nothing new was done for the case from this time; nothing further but repeating the injection of warm water twice a day, passing the rectum bougies, taking the Uva IJrsi, and sitting over the decoction of poppies. At the close of the fourth week, the Bladder could contain eleven ounces, and the patient could sit throughout the night at the theatre, without a call to urine. He then made a trip to Bromley, and returued a week after, when, for the last time.