Practical observations on strictures of the urethra : with cases illustrative of the comparative merits of the caustic and common bougie : also Remarks on fistula in ano, and an improved method of treating Tinea capitis with annexed cases / by Thomas Luxmoore.

  • Luxmoore, Thomas, 1774-1824.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Practical observations on strictures of the urethra : with cases illustrative of the comparative merits of the caustic and common bougie : also Remarks on fistula in ano, and an improved method of treating Tinea capitis with annexed cases / by Thomas Luxmoore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the safest and most successful; and that a gradual and continued pressure will overcome difficulties apparently insur- mountable ; for in this case it required eight weeks to procure a free passage. CASE III. A butcher in Whitechapel applied to me for a running, which had continued upon him for about eighteen months, being sometimes very trifling, and at other times more copious. He was a married man, and had not been the subject of any Venereal affection for the last six years of liis life. His urine was passed in a dribbling manner, and when asleep, it frequently came away involuntarily, and during the day, when he wanted to make water, he felt an inclination to go to stool. I passed down a moderate sized bougie, and found a considerable contraction in the canal about four inches from the orifice; which, however, I penetrated, and proceeded till I got the instrument into the bladder. He immediately felt