Remarks on strictures of the urethra of extreme calibre : with cases, and a description of new instruments for their treatment / by F.N. Otis.

  • Otis, Fessenden N. (Fessenden Nott), 1825-1900.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Remarks on strictures of the urethra of extreme calibre : with cases, and a description of new instruments for their treatment / by F.N. Otis. 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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    EEMAEKS GIST STEICTUEES OE THE UEETHEA OF EXTEEME GALIBEE, WITH CASES, AXD A DESCEIPTIOX OF HEW IXSTEHMEXTS FOE THEIE TEEATMEXT/ Me. Peesident and Gentlemen : I desire tliis evening to call yonr attention, briefly, to a few practical points in the management of stricture of the male urethra. In a paper, which I had the honor to read before this Asso- ciation nearly two years since, I called especial attention to the influence of strictures of large calibre in perpetuating a purulent urethral secretion, concluding in the following terms: We may^ then, affirm as a most important axiom^ that the slightest abnormal encroachment ujoon the calibre of the urethral canal^ at any jpoint in its course^ is sufficient to perpetuate a itrethral discharge,^ or even,, under favoring circumstances^ to establish it, de novo, ivithout venereal con- tact P Kead before the hTew York Journal Association, Yovember 24, 1871.