A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . time theprofession took note of the fact, that diseases of the urethraare as important as any. Painful micturition is a matter ofgreat moment to a patient who suffers in this way for years.(I removed a urethral polypus from a lady two years since,and effected a perfect cure, who had suffered untold torturesfrom its presence for over twenty years, her physicians havingfailed to make a correct din gnosis.) Etiology. Cold and the irritating qualities of unhealthy urine de-velop most, if not all, the dis
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . time theprofession took note of the fact, that diseases of the urethraare as important as any. Painful micturition is a matter ofgreat moment to a patient who suffers in this way for years.(I removed a urethral polypus from a lady two years since,and effected a perfect cure, who had suffered untold torturesfrom its presence for over twenty years, her physicians havingfailed to make a correct din gnosis.) Etiology. Cold and the irritating qualities of unhealthy urine de-velop most, if not all, the diseases of the urethra, exceptlaceration. Inflammation of the part, called urethritis, isthe first development, and from the enlargement of the mu-oous follicles arise the urethral polypi, and the irritable urethralcarunculw. Foreign bodies passed into the urethra by intentor accident may cause inflammation, and lead to ulceration. Diagnosis. Chronic cases of painful micturition should be subjectedto ocular examination. In irritable urethral caruncidw, digital 446 EATON ON DISEASES OF Fig. No. 44.—Skenes Urethral Endescope. examination reveals the presence of enlargements around themeatus. The irritable carunculse are extremely sensitive tothe touch. Occasionally urethral polypi may be felt hanging from the urethra;they are not usu-ally sensitive to thetouch, but producestraining after mic-turition, and fre-quent desire tourinate, if they areattached within theurinal canal. Byocular examination we discover their attachment and are usually bright pink in color, and vary in size fromone-eighth of an inch to an inch in diameter. These tumorsmay be found single or multiple. If we find no external tumors in or around the urethra,we should inspect the interior of the canal as thoroughly aspossible. An ordinary urethral speculum, with two smallblades is usually sufficient for this purpose. (See Fig. 45.)Dr. Skene, of Brooklyn, has invented a cylindrical speculum,th
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