Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . until the disposition for contraction is en-tirely removed ; and the patient should never rest withoutoccasionally examining his urethra, say once a month (atleast once a quarter), lest he encounter a relapse. Having disposed of the treatment of stricture in its for-tunately most usual—namely, the mildest—form, I proceedto consider the treatment of severe kinds—previously towhich, a
Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . until the disposition for contraction is en-tirely removed ; and the patient should never rest withoutoccasionally examining his urethra, say once a month (atleast once a quarter), lest he encounter a relapse. Having disposed of the treatment of stricture in its for-tunately most usual—namely, the mildest—form, I proceedto consider the treatment of severe kinds—previously towhich, a few remarks upon the various kinds of in-struments, their structure, shape, and size, will render anysubsequent allusion more intelligible. The diagram here introduced represents the calibre ofthe various bougies in general use, and the observer willperceive, that as they are made to accommodate themselvesto the passage they have to pass, how varied must be thechanges which the urethra undergoes. The last outlineindicates the natural and healthy bore of the are manufactured of different materials : waxencloth rolled together, elastic and yielding; flexible metal. ON VENEREAL silver, and gold. The bougies which I employ are con-structed upon an improved plan to those in general use :the elastic, as they are termed, although assisted in theirattempted passage to the bladder by the smooth and well-lubricated sides of the urethra, have a constant tendencyto straighten, and consequently are liable to hitch in allthe folds they may encounter, which, in relaxed habits, arevery numerous in the membranous portion of the obviate such a possibility, I prefer that the bougieshould be of such a consistence and manufacture as willadmit of its preserving the shape I adapt it to previouslyto introducing it; at the same time the material to be suf-ficiently soft to enable it to accommodate itself to any ac-cidental tortuosity of the tube it is explor
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