. Practical electricity in medicine and surgery. nd painful portion of thecanal and may be made to enter the bladder. The sound should DISEASES OF THE MALE GENITOURINARY ORGANS. 357 then be slowly retracted without breaking the circuit until thepainful area has been passed, when the circuit may be openedand the urethral electrode withdrawn. There will usually be alittle bleeding and some pain, with a strong desire to urinate,which should be gratified. The penis, scrotum, and perinaeumshould be bathed in hot water for a few minutes at a time fouror five times after the operation. The sittings m
. Practical electricity in medicine and surgery. nd painful portion of thecanal and may be made to enter the bladder. The sound should DISEASES OF THE MALE GENITOURINARY ORGANS. 357 then be slowly retracted without breaking the circuit until thepainful area has been passed, when the circuit may be openedand the urethral electrode withdrawn. There will usually be alittle bleeding and some pain, with a strong desire to urinate,which should be gratified. The penis, scrotum, and perinaeumshould be bathed in hot water for a few minutes at a time fouror five times after the operation. The sittings may be repeatedonce or twice a week, and should not exceed five minutes needs no urging to use only the gentlest manipulation in in-troducing any kind of instrument into the urethra. After thefirst sitting the pain and bleeding become less until after threeor four sittings they disappear entirely. Four to six weekstreatment is usually sufficient for the cure of this affection. Inurethral stricture the same method of treatment is Fig. 249.—Insulated Urethral Sound. The normal calibre of the urethra, the size and location of thestricture are first determined, and then an insulated sound (), connected as cathode, a little larger than the stricture, ispassed down to the strictured portion of the canal. The circuit is then closed, with the anode on the thigh, andthe current gradually turned on with the rheostat or currentselector. A strength of 4 to 8 milliamperes may be used. Ifthe stricture is an infiltrated and not a cicatricial one, it willusually yield to very slight pressure in a few minutes. Thesound should then be drawn backward slowly through thestrictured portion of the canal, and then the circuit attempts should be made to pass a second larger instrumentat the same sitting. Even if the sound used is too large, andwill not pass the stricture within five minutes, it is better not to 3-38 PRACTICAL ELECTRICITT IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY. irri
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