Why electrolytic treatment of stricture does not succeed in all hands / by G.C.H. Meier.

  • Meier, G.C.H.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Why electrolytic treatment of stricture does not succeed in all hands / by G.C.H. Meier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    So also, if there are granulations in the urethra, they must be healed before you attempt to cure the stricture, or your patient will be made worse. The uncomplicated, uninflamed and quiescent organic strictures, where tho only difficulty experienced is the dwindling of the stream of urine, without discharge, pain, or other discomfort, you are not very likely to get when you essay your first case with the galvanic current. These kind of strictures give the most bril- liant results, for they need no other treatment than the passing of the proper current three or four times, and sometimes even once, and a cure is effected. Another error which will always obviate the good results of the treatment, is tho unnecessary and pro- longed passing of instruments, whether from a mis- taken idea that your patient will not be satisfied if you do not use a sound on him every time he visits you, or whether you are not competent to make a diagnosis to your satisfaction without a great deal of manipulation and sounding, or from whatever cause. Avoid putting any instrument into the urethra oftener than you can possibly help, and do not roughly handle any instrument when it is passed. Under this head the physician may also be cautioned that the application of the electric current should never be repeated under ten days; better let an inter- val of two or three weeks intervene between each sit- ting—your results will be better and you are not as likely to produce inflammation by over stimulation. Under no consideration should two instruments, or the same instrument be passed twice in one sitting. Whatever good you can accomplish will have been