Observations on the application of lunar caustic to strictures in the urethra and oesophagus / by M. W. Andrews, M.D.

  • Andrews, M. W. (Magnus Whittern), -1835.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Observations on the application of lunar caustic to strictures in the urethra and oesophagus / by M. W. Andrews, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    canal, but almost always takes place first immediately behind the bulb, that portion of the urethra having a greater spasmodic a&ion at the time of the venereal orgasm, to assist the accelerators muscles in throwing forward the semen with a sufficient degree of proje&ile force. There is another circumstance, which ren- ders it more than probable that the original, or primary stricture takes place at this point, viz. that an obstruction is very rarely to be met with at any anterior part of the canal without there being one also in this situation; but, on the contrary, where there is only one stricture, it is generally found to be at about seven inches from the external orifice, making a proper allowance for the variety in the length of the urethra in different individuals. A stricture, once formed, may continue fpr many years without the patient's having the smallest suspicion of its existence: this, how- ever, will depend, in a great measure, upon the constitution, or the circumstance which ^ave rise to its formation.