The surgical diseases of the genito-urinary organs including syphilis . the surgeon should keep his elbow sup-ported during most of the operation, in order that his hand may bemore steady. If the right hand is used, the surgeon places himselfat the patients left, and viceversa. To explore the canal,a simple, blunt, steel instru-ment, of medium size, is se-lected, and properly penis is gently encircledby the fingers and thumb ofone hand, the instrument heldlightly with the points of threefingers and the thumb of theother. The shaft of the in-strument is held over the foldof the groi
The surgical diseases of the genito-urinary organs including syphilis . the surgeon should keep his elbow sup-ported during most of the operation, in order that his hand may bemore steady. If the right hand is used, the surgeon places himselfat the patients left, and viceversa. To explore the canal,a simple, blunt, steel instru-ment, of medium size, is se-lected, and properly penis is gently encircledby the fingers and thumb ofone hand, the instrument heldlightly with the points of threefingers and the thumb of theother. The shaft of the in-strument is held over the foldof the groin, its handle nearlyin contact with the skin, fromwhich latter (the integument,first of the groin and then ofthe abdomen) it is not to bemoved away until the point of the instrument is about to enter thefixed portion of the urethra (membranous). The instrument, at firstheld along the groin, with its point high and handle low (Fig. 15),is entered at the meatus, and the penis is molded up over it. It isnot pushed into the urethra, but the urethra is made to swallow the. Fig. 15. 36 DISEASES OF THE URETHRA.
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