A treatise on the diseases of the urethra, vesica urinaria, prostate, and rectum / by Charles Bell.

  • Charles Bell
Date:
1820
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the urethra, vesica urinaria, prostate, and rectum / by Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    was still passed, so as to deceive him. He believed that he emptied the bladder at each effort he made. I drew off the urine by a small catheter, ordered him a dose of calomel and opium, and a fomenta- tion to the perineum. When I saw him again, it was evident to me, that the inflammatory tumour and abscess which had formed by the side of the urethra, received the urine into it, and that the urine kept up the irrita- tion and inflammation. I therefore opened the abscess behind the scrotum, and was again so for- tunate as to draw off the urine. The passage ad- mitted only the smallest flexible catheter. Next day matters were worse, and the catheter was introduced with much difficultv. The sue- ceeding day it was impossible; from the extensive inflammation around the original obstruction, and the irregularity of the opening by ulceration into the urethra. I therefore opened the abscess more freely, and was lucky enough, without much dis- turbance of the parts, to pass a gum catheter from the abscess in the perineum directly into the blad- der, by which a great quantity of offensive urine was let off, and all danger of distention of the bladder, or infiltration of urine, was removed. After this, there was an intervaFof some weeks, during which he went on improving under the care of the apothecary. Being again called to him, though he spoke cheerily of his condition, and of