Why electrolytic treatment of stricture does not succeed in all hands / by G.C.H. Meier.

  • Meier, G.C.H.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Why electrolytic treatment of stricture does not succeed in all hands / by G.C.H. Meier. 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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    WHY ELECTROLYTIC TREATMENT 0E STRICTURE DOES NOT SUCCEED IN ALL HANDS. By 0. C. H. Meier, M. D., of New York. Member of the N. Y. State Mediod Auueutiion. Although the use of Electrolysis iu the treatment of urethral stricture is at present an acknowledged fact, and its value recognized by many of the leading men in this country as well as in England, and lias even found its way to Australia, it seems that New York, its birthplace and cradle, is the only place of all others where its recognition as a legiti- mate and safe surgical procedure has been most strenuously opposed and, strange to say, at the prerent day finds its greatest opponents. Antagonism does not show itself as a rule by direct opposition, but rather, by a tendency to depreciate and belittle the operation, decrying it as a species of quackery, or else by persistently and entirely ignor- ing its existence. This latter mode of choking the operation has gone bo far that an otherwise favorably disposed reviewer of a standard work, lately published by one of our most eminent specialists in genito- urinary diseases,* finds himself constrained to use the following language regarding the author’s de- liberate omission from even mentioning electrolysis as being used in the treatment of organic stricture. •'1 The surgical Disease* of the Oenito-trinary Organs, including Syphilis. By E. L. Keyes, AX., M.D., etc.