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 . 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 exploring. Catheters are instruments for the purposes of with-drawing the urine ; they arc consequently hollow, and aremade of the same materials as bougies ; but
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 . 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 exploring. Catheters are instruments for the purposes of with-drawing the urine ; they arc consequently hollow, and aremade of the same materials as bougies ; but the most use-ful and to be depended upon are composed of silver. Sur-geons, like other men, have their fancies: a catheter,when made of silver, has very little flexibility; according-ly it must be shaped beforehand. Some medical men pre-fer them quite straight, others with an immense curve. Asurgeon should possess many forms, as the direction of theurethra differs almost in all men. The subjoined exhibitsnot the size, but the shape of the more useful and thosemost generally used. Figures 1, 2, and 3, suffice in mostinstances, whereas figure 4 is necessary in cases of en-6* 66 A POPULAR TREATISE No. 1. 2? 9. largement of the prostate gland, which presses up thebladder, and renders the urethral passage consequentlylonger. 3 The French employ not only variously curved instru-ments, bnt variously shaped. In peculiar cases they are-doubtlessly useful; but they require to be used only bypersons of skill and judgment. In the next three kindsare views of such; they are called conical bougies—thefirst curved, the second straight. They are made of sil-ver, waxen cloth, or India-rubber. The third exhibits asound, employed to ascertain the seat of the stricture I have already alluded to the improved method I employon finding it necessary to use escharotics. I can not bet-ter explain the process than by submitting a sketch of the VENEREAL DISEASES. $7 instruments, whereby the mode of appl
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