On the treatment of strictures of the urethra by mechanical dilatation, and other diseases attendant on them: with some anatomical observations on the natural form and dimensions of the urethra, with a view to a more precise adaptation and use of the instruments employed in their relief / by James Briggs.

Date:
1845
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Credit: On the treatment of strictures of the urethra by mechanical dilatation, and other diseases attendant on them: with some anatomical observations on the natural form and dimensions of the urethra, with a view to a more precise adaptation and use of the instruments employed in their relief / by James Briggs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    norrhoeal affection, or the patient at least has had no recollection of any ; and the gleety discharge, which often accompanies the diminished size of the canal, is evidently to be traced to this source. An inflamma- tory state of the contracted part of the urethra, from whatever cause it may arise, appears to me to origin- ate and constitute more or less the obstruction to the passage of the urine in most cases, and as that accom- panying gonorrhoea is the most common to this part, it is not in accordance with facts to exclude it as a remote cause of stricture of the urethra. I propose, in the following pages, to show that by the application of simple mechanical means, hereafter to be described, the object of restoring the urethra to its natural calibre may be effectually attained in a much shorter space of time, with far less suffering to the pa- tient, than by the methods usually resorted to, and with the advantage also of affording more immediate relief than is generally obtained. I shall also endea- vour to point out the utility of the same means for the relief of some other diseased states of the urinary or- gans connected with this disorder. The remarks which are thrown together on strictures of the urethra, and other diseases consequent on them, are to be considered only as incidental to the subject, and applicable to some particular facts or points of practice to which my attention has been more parti- cularly directed, or upon which experience has led me to adopt views somewhat different from those