Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . is started itcomes out with force whether coming naturally or if drawn offwith a catheter. If due to stone the trouble is worse when the patient ismuch on his feet; if due to enlarged prostate the difficulty ismore pronounced at night or in the early morning. A positivediagnosis is made by means of rectal examination, sound andcystoscope. This also applies to growths. Dribbling or pass-ing a few drops of urine after urination is apparently complet


Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . is started itcomes out with force whether coming naturally or if drawn offwith a catheter. If due to stone the trouble is worse when the patient ismuch on his feet; if due to enlarged prostate the difficulty ismore pronounced at night or in the early morning. A positivediagnosis is made by means of rectal examination, sound andcystoscope. This also applies to growths. Dribbling or pass-ing a few drops of urine after urination is apparently completedis evidence of atony of the sphincter. If after catheterizationthe patient is laid upon his back, then turned upon his face andmade to arise, the desire to urinate or the presence of moreurine upon an immediate recatheterization shows the presenceof retained urine in the vesical pouches. These may be minuteand hold not more than a drop or two in each pouch but whenthese drops are long retained they decompose, cause local irri-tation and inflammation. A distended bladder can readily bemade out by palpation and percussion and confirmed by the. Section of the Lung, Pneumoconiosis. (Rindfleisch.) The deposited pigment is shown in the connective tissue of the vesicular wall.


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