Diseases of the urinary organs : including stricture of the urethra, affections of the prostate, and stone in the bladder / by John W.S. Gouley.

  • Gouley, John W. S. (John William Severin), 1832-1920.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Diseases of the urinary organs : including stricture of the urethra, affections of the prostate, and stone in the bladder / by John W.S. Gouley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    being taken to avoid tlie bulb on one side, and the rectum on the other. The uretliral incision is only five or six millimetres in length. I see no reason v^^hy the knife should not be plunged into the urethra through the skin, as in Allarton's operation. Dilatation.—In most cases the dilator can be introduced into the bladder at once; but Mr. Dolbeau prefers, for safety's sake, to make dilatation in three steps, the first of which consists in inserting the point of the dilator into the groove of the staff, and fixing it in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the perinaium. (Fig. 92.) Fio. 92. From Dolbeau. Showing the relative positions of the staff and dilator during the first step of dilatation. The staff is held firmly in position, that there may not be the slightest deviation of either instrument, and that it may serve as a fulcrum for the dilator; and, during dilatation, the assistant 23