. American X-ray journal . We have achance to watch the effects of treatmentlocally applied from time to time. Whilethere is no particular difficulty attendingthe introduction of a straight urethroscop-ical tube into the membranous and pros-tatic urethra, it is always somewhat pain-ful to the patient, and especially so incases of posterior inflammation. A curvedtube with a window on its posterior as-pect seems here preferable, exposing, as itdoes, the caput g-allinaginis, while at thesame time its blunt tip prevents the es- 198 THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. caping urine from above exposing the f
. American X-ray journal . We have achance to watch the effects of treatmentlocally applied from time to time. Whilethere is no particular difficulty attendingthe introduction of a straight urethroscop-ical tube into the membranous and pros-tatic urethra, it is always somewhat pain-ful to the patient, and especially so incases of posterior inflammation. A curvedtube with a window on its posterior as-pect seems here preferable, exposing, as itdoes, the caput g-allinaginis, while at thesame time its blunt tip prevents the es- 198 THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. caping urine from above exposing the fieldand decomposing our solutions. The main benefits, then, derived fromthe urethroscope, are: Dilatation, treat-ment localized to areas needing it, and ocu-lar inspection of progress. As to the cystoscope, it might be saidthat the water-distending one is for allpurposes of examination the least painfulto use; besides giving a good view of theconditions present within the bladder. Incases of hemorrhage we have recourse to. an irrigating or the Preston air-distend-ing cystoscope. The cystoscope will showthe condition of the vesical mucosa, vesicalneck, the urethral openings, enlarging
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