Journal - American Institute of Homopathy . ations to litholapaxyand lithotomy. Foreign bodies are readily recognized by the cystoscope. Theirconstitution—glass, threads, pins, needles, catheter pieces, sealingwax, etc.—and their position being ascertained, their removalmay be attempted intelligently. Suprapubic cystotomy is notalways necessary. Solid pieces may be aspirated. Even a pieceof glass may thus be drawn into a large aspirating metal catheterand removed. Incrustations of paraffin bougies and catheters. CYSTOSCOPY—KRAUSS 1463 may be dissolved with benzin and like fluids. Hair pins may


Journal - American Institute of Homopathy . ations to litholapaxyand lithotomy. Foreign bodies are readily recognized by the cystoscope. Theirconstitution—glass, threads, pins, needles, catheter pieces, sealingwax, etc.—and their position being ascertained, their removalmay be attempted intelligently. Suprapubic cystotomy is notalways necessary. Solid pieces may be aspirated. Even a pieceof glass may thus be drawn into a large aspirating metal catheterand removed. Incrustations of paraffin bougies and catheters. CYSTOSCOPY—KRAUSS 1463 may be dissolved with benzin and like fluids. Hair pins may bedrawn out between the jaws of a lithotriptor under the guide ofthe cystoscope. Tumors of the bladder show the usefulness of cystoscopymore than almost anything else connected with bladder path-ology. It ought to be an axiom when a patient complains ofspontaneous hematuria never to subject him to instrumentalmanipulation other than cystoscopy, for palpation of bladder tu-mors with a searcher results inevitably in hemorrhage; hemor-. :*j9S


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