The principles and practice of surgery: embracing minor and operative surgery : with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860 : arranged for the use of students (Volume 2) . STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA. 485 urethra, it should, however, be recollected that a permanent stricture is adiminution of the urethra due to inflammatory thickening; that this thick-ening or obstruction often presents us with a species of inodular tissue, ororganized lymph similar to it; and that, like ordinary cicatrices in the skin,the parts about it do not lose their contractile tend
The principles and practice of surgery: embracing minor and operative surgery : with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860 : arranged for the use of students (Volume 2) . STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA. 485 urethra, it should, however, be recollected that a permanent stricture is adiminution of the urethra due to inflammatory thickening; that this thick-ening or obstruction often presents us with a species of inodular tissue, ororganized lymph similar to it; and that, like ordinary cicatrices in the skin,the parts about it do not lose their contractile tendency for months. If, then,even in a moderately tight stricture, dilatation is resorted to, and forcedcatheterism practiced, a passage may be created and gradually enlargedunder mechanical force, and yet so little change effected in the vital actionof the part that, on the cessation of the dilating means, the stricture will beliable to return, as is daily seen in cases where the occasional use of thebougie is not pursued by the patient after leaving the hands of the , therefore, patients who, with a small and tight stricture, are usuallybarely able to urinate, but yet, when treated by dilatatio
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