A treatise on the urethra : its diseases, especially stricture, and their cure / by Benjamin Phillips.

Date:
1832
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    energ-y of action in, the tissue than it possessed in the natural state, we can hope to remove the induration only by stimulating the tissue, even in its early stages ; and if the induration be of so long a standing that the vitality has become almost extinct, it cannot, I apprehend, be removed except by the mechanical or che- mical destruction of the tissue. Analogically, the possible necessity for destroying the indu- rated substance is shewn by tumours of a simi- lar character developed externally ; where, al- though we have the greatest facility in making applications, those applications frequently prove ineffectual, and the knife is found to be the only remedy. In mucous tissues, however, it is ne- cessary to distinguish the primitive irritation, which has preceded induration and has appa- rently been one of its causes, from another irri- tation, which may be termed secondary, and which supervenes to induration. We may con- ceive, therefore, that opposite modes of treat- ment have equally succeeded, according to the character of the induration. Where excited action is evident, the object should be to remove the congestion, and prevent its return ; and an- tiphlogistic treatment should of course be re- sorted to for that purpose : where, on the con- trary, the indurated tissue is found in an asthe- nic state, we may, with much hope of success, apply a more or less energetic stimulus ; but it