An improved method of treating strictures in the urethra / by Thomas Whately.

  • Whately, Thomas, -1821.
Date:
1816
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Credit: An improved method of treating strictures in the urethra / by Thomas Whately. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. se RMI A ree Fig. I, See page 20. REPRESENTS a bougie bent at the point, for the pur- pose of being passed through an irregular stricture. The bent point should be passed down the urethra on that side of it to which the aperture of the stricture is supposed to be situate. Fig. II. See page 35. Represents a bougie having the proper degree of curva- ture given to it, before it is armed with kali, in order to be passed through a stricture at seven inches distance from the orifice of the urethra. Fig. If]. See page 66. Represents a large flexible gum catheter, with a thick iron wire inserted into it, and of a proper degree of curvature, in ordered to be passed into the bladder with the wire, in cases of an enlargement of the prostate gland. Fig. IV. See page 67. Represents a flexible gum catheter very much curved, by means of a small wire inserted into it, in order to give the catheter the degree of curvature of a common silver catheter, when the wire is withdrawn, in which state it is to be passed into the bladder. The degree of curvature I have repre- \ sented, is particularly necessary in new instruments, but it may be afterwards varied a little, according to the stubborn- ness or flexibility of the instrumemt. Fig. V. Represents a bougie a size larger than one of the finest kind, for applying the caustic to a very contracted stricture. The particle of kali represented in the smallest dot at page 44, is selected as ready for insertion. Fig. VI. Represents a cloth bougie of the very finest kind. It is generally necessary that bougies of this slender make should be of a conical shape, otherwise they would not be firm enough for introduction. Fig. VII. Represents a very fine catgut bougie,