On improvements recently made in the treatment of stricture of the urethra : being a supplement to A treatise on stricture and stone / by James Arnott.

  • Arnott, James Moncrieff, 1794-1885.
Date:
1856
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Credit: On improvements recently made in the treatment of stricture of the urethra : being a supplement to A treatise on stricture and stone / by James Arnott. 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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    notwithstanding that it is a little more complex and troublesome ? And in cases of old and mismanaged stricture with great alteration of structure, confessedly irremediable by any means of dilatation however perfect, is nothing to be attempted, or nothing of efficacy, until puncture of the bladder is demanded, or other operations of equal danger? I am persuaded that, if more efficient mea- sures than those now commonly employed in this country were had recourse to in earlier stages of the disease, the extreme conditions requiring hazardous remedies would seldom or never occur, and that we should as rarely witness the miserable deaths now so frequently occurring from long- continued stricture and its consequences. THE END. Printed by Reynell and Weight, 1G Little Pulteney street, Haymarket.