On stricture as the initial cause of gleetD. Appleton & Company, 1876 - 30 pages |
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50 cents 551 Broadway APPLETON appreciate authorities average Bellevue Hospital bladder Bolton Bangs bougie bulbous Buren and Keyes canal casts cause of gleet CHARITY HOSPITAL chronic claim Cloth condition contracted meatus copaiba cubebs cystitis detecting diameter difference dilatation discharge distention English examinations fact feeling of fullness fixes the urethral fossæ fourteen strictures French Genito-Urinary Diseases Gleet depends gonorrhoea gonorrhoeal Guthrie H. B. SANDS Hammond's highest normal type hundred inch inflammation inflammatory INITIAL CAUSE instrument irritating lacunæ living subject masturbation ment micturition millimetres in circumference muscular structure navicularis normal calibre normal urethra normal urethral calibre Obstetric obstruction orifice PAPER OF DR Physiology POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY present Price prolonged prostatic quoted recognized Relations to Urethral Sands says says Prof Sheep Sir Henry Thompson Stephen Smith surgeon Surgery surgical thral tion treatment trouble twenty-five millimetres urethra-meter urethral mucous membrane urethral stricture urethrotomy urine YORK MEDICAL JOURNAL
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Page 21 - In this statement of Dr. Otis, I fully agree, for I made the verification in upwards of 50 cases. In a public examination of a hundred patients, in Charity and Bellevue Hospitals, said to be without inflammatory antecedents, the smallest sized meatus measured 13 mm. in...
Page 15 - ... after chancre, or other lesion there. It may be the only obstruction in the canal, and yet give rise to the most painful and serious symptoms, and even to a fatal result : a case of the lustnamed kind has been already alluded to.
Page 24 - I think, be accounted for by the more rigid, thorough, and methodical carrying out of the plan of measurement in the more recent examinations. In this connection, as opposed to the traditional idea, it will be interesting to quote the opinion of that eminent English surgeon, the late Mr. Guthrie, who says : " This bulbous portion of the urethra is said to be larger than the anterior part, but I do not believe that it is, although it may appear so.
Page 6 - Sir Benjamin Brodie states that alkaline urine is more likely to . produce the disease (stricture) than that which is acid, and that persons secreting the triple phosphate are almost sure to have stricture sooner or later." Mr. Liston says, in reference to attacks of acidity of urine, that " their continuance, or frequent occurrence, may lay the foundation of disease of the urethra.
Page 17 - ... and quoad obstruction, wants no use of instruments whatever." It will thus be seen that Sir Henry Thompson fails to recognize the varied capacity of the urethra in different individuals, and practically reduces all urethrae to a common and fixed standard.