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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Bostwick, Homer
Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases
Publisher: New York, Burgess, Stringer & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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thread were drawn tightly around the penis. Sometimes, thoughseldom, there is an extensive effusion of lymph over a great surface of the canal, * The porte empreinte, or model sound, is formed by taking a hollow bougie, through which is passeda strand of cotton thread, leaving about half an inch of it projecting beyond the inner extremity of thebougie. This is dipped into a composition made of equal parts of bees-wax, diachylon, and shoe-makers wax, and allowed to cool. It is then rolled between two pieces of wood until it is made quiteround, smooth, and of the diameter of the other portions of the bougie. ^^^ STRICTURE OF THE I RETHRA. 269 which becomes, at length, a false membrane, such as may he observed in the larynxami trachea of children severely allected with croii;). I iniiv here mention that thelened base of an old chancre, is another occasional cause ol* stricture. It is un-necessary to refer to any Other of the causes, as they are rather curious than impor-tant m practice.
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EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Tins plate represents different forms or strictures, with impressions that have been taken by themodel bougie, (porte empreinte). Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, show urethras with the passages nearly closed.Figurii I, 6, 7, s, show the impressions of them which have been made wilh the porte empreinte.Those without numbers are impressions of the like kind, which fuither exhibit the great variety ofshapes that strictures assume. The second variety—the Spasmodic — is one, the existence of which is whollydenied by some surgeons of eminence ; but there are such good reasons for believ-ing that strictures of this nature not unfrequently occur that, for my part, I no moredoubt the spasmodic, than I do the permanent kind. It is a common thing to see patients suddenly attacked with a retention of urine.After a free indulgence in the pleasures of the table, and partaking liberally ofacid wines, or punch, persons often find, when they attempt to urinate, that not adrop will pass.

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