Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . nt; because itwill pass with much less pain or inconvenience. It shouldbe made conical, that is, smaller at the point than at theshaft, and of a size to pass very readily into the orifice;the shaft or body of the sound should not exceed twothirds of the size of the canal. The sound should bewarmed, and afterward it should be well oiled. The di-rections for examining the urethra pert
Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . nt; because itwill pass with much less pain or inconvenience. It shouldbe made conical, that is, smaller at the point than at theshaft, and of a size to pass very readily into the orifice;the shaft or body of the sound should not exceed twothirds of the size of the canal. The sound should bewarmed, and afterward it should be well oiled. The di-rections for examining the urethra pertain to the passageof a bougie or catheter; and as it often falls to the lot ofa patient, that he is beyond medical assistance, it behooveshim to learn how an instrument should be passed, in orderthat in emergencies he may officiate himself; besides, itoften happens, in cases of diseased bladder, and in thosecases where retention of urine frequently occurs, that aninvalid can not command ihe necessary constant attend-ance of his professional man ; and therefore such knowl-edge will well repay any little time or trouble bestowed inthe acquisition. The two annexed drawings will render 60 A POPULAR TREATISE .3^. Ihc commonest observer aproficient. The first showsthe manner in which thebougie is to be the instrument canbe passed thus far, withoutthe assistance of the otherhand than that which holdsthe bougie, it is better, asit keeps the penis and themuscles which influence itin a passive state. Whenthe instrument has passedH3 far as it will, in the di-rection the dotted lines denote, it is to be turned gentlyround, raising the handle toward the abdomen. A slightpressure is then to be made downward, and the handle ofthe catheter or bourric atthe same time to be borneaway fiom the body. Seediagram. The instrumentwill, if there be no impedi-ment, gradually slip intothe bladder. A trial or twowill perfect and surprisethe novice. The same di-rections apply to the intro-
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