. A Complete practical work on the nature and treatment of venereal diseases, and other affections of the genito-urinary organs of the male and female ... 290 TREATMENT OF men who continue to beguile the community intoa belief that they possess superior qualifications,when in truth they are wholly without knowledgeof human diseases, the favorite practice is a sortof horse doctoring ; and what they lack in skill,they supply in strength. Their operations areconducted with an abiding faith in a mathematicalprinciple of treatment — if gentle force be good,strong force will be better,—
. A Complete practical work on the nature and treatment of venereal diseases, and other affections of the genito-urinary organs of the male and female ... 290 TREATMENT OF men who continue to beguile the community intoa belief that they possess superior qualifications,when in truth they are wholly without knowledgeof human diseases, the favorite practice is a sortof horse doctoring ; and what they lack in skill,they supply in strength. Their operations areconducted with an abiding faith in a mathematicalprinciple of treatment — if gentle force be good,strong force will be better,— as one pill is to agiven result, so are two pills to double thatresult ! Urethra and Bladder. to be cauterized, where it is capable of being turned around, sbould the surgeon desire it. The objec-tion is rather to its mechanism than its theory. When the caustic cup is thrust forward to be used inthe urethra, there is much danger that its slender neck may break, and still more in turning it, thusleaving it behind in the prostatic portion of the canal. It has once broken in my hands — the first, andI arn sure it will be the last time. I can scarcely imagine that any one co
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