Observations (clinical and bacteriological) on the circumstances of operative interference with mucous membranes, with reference specially to the urethra / by James H. Nicoll, M.B, Assistant Surgeon, Western Infirmary.

  • Nicoll, James H.
Date:
[1898?]
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Credit: Observations (clinical and bacteriological) on the circumstances of operative interference with mucous membranes, with reference specially to the urethra / by James H. Nicoll, M.B, Assistant Surgeon, Western Infirmary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from Glasgow Hospital Reports. OBSERVATIONS (CLINICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL) ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF OPERATIVE IN- TERFERENCE WITH MUCOUS MEMBRANES, WITH REFERENCE SPECIALLY TO THE URETHRA. By JAMES H. NICOLL, M.B., Assistant Surgeon, Western Infirmary; Extra Surgeon, Children’s Hospital; Consulting Surgeon, Ear Hospital; Consulting Surgeon, Glasgow District Lunacy Board Surgeon, Glasgow Central Dispensary ; etc. The results of certain observations which have occupied much of my spare time during the past few years are here given as so many statements of fact verified as fully as the difficulties surrounding them have permitted. No attempt is made to draw final conclusions on any or all of the points raised—the sources of fallacy are too numerous, and often too obscure; and, as explained below, the observations are incomplete, and are still being carried on. No bibliography of the subject is included. In the course of the investigation I had partially compiled one. Two things led me to abandon as useless labour the effort to complete it. These were, in the first place, the contradictoriness of the statements of the various writers, and, in the second, the obviously second-hand order of many of these statements. The observations detailed, there- fore, are to be regarded as the expression of an attempt to reach the facts of the subject by an observer as far as possible unbiassed by previous statements. They are not, however, as already stated, given without the knowledge that fallacies may be present. So many sources of fallacy have become apparent that it is highly improbable that there may not remain still others. Tlie investigation has followed two lines: (1) Into the A