. Clinical lectures on stricture of the urethra and enlargement of the prostate. Fig. Fig. 33. (Fig. 32), or a well-curved one terminating in a coude(Fig. 83), may be necessary to overcome the it was customary to keep catheters mounted on awell-curved metal stylet ready for use; they are now wovenwith this curve in their manufacture and retain their shapepermanently. It will be rarely desirable for a patient himself to pass ametal catheter. When circumstances arise requiring itsemployment the surgeon should be called in. Whatever instrument is employed it must be kept
. Clinical lectures on stricture of the urethra and enlargement of the prostate. Fig. Fig. 33. (Fig. 32), or a well-curved one terminating in a coude(Fig. 83), may be necessary to overcome the it was customary to keep catheters mounted on awell-curved metal stylet ready for use; they are now wovenwith this curve in their manufacture and retain their shapepermanently. It will be rarely desirable for a patient himself to pass ametal catheter. When circumstances arise requiring itsemployment the surgeon should be called in. Whatever instrument is employed it must be kept scrupu- TREA TMENT OF ENLARGED PROSTA TE 85 lously clean. The life and comfort of the patient dependnot less on the cleanliness of his catheter than on thejudicious use of the same. It will not be out of place, there-fore, if I here direct your attention to the antiseptic pre-cautions necessary in the employment of urethral instrumentsin general. The instruments required for catheterism are of three kinds—metallic, soft rubber and gum-elastic. The first two aremost easily and effect
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