Modern surgery, general and operative (1914) (14595970079)
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Identifier: modernsurgerygen1914daco (find matches)
Title: Modern surgery, general and operative
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Da Costa, J. Chalmers (John Chalmers), 1863-1933
Subjects: Surgery Surgery, Operative
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, W. B. Saunders company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons
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Fig. 907.—^Markss air-dilating urethroscope for examination of the posterior urethra. touching from time to time wdth a solution of silver nitrate (i or 2 per cent, oreven much stronger). These applications are made through the tube of theurethroscope. A stricture or an infiltration is treated by gradual dilatation.This combines pressure and massage. If the caliber of the urethra is less than 1360 Diseases and Injuries of the Genito-urinary Organs No. 21 of the French scale, conical steel sounds are used twice a week. If thereis much hyperesthesia they are retained but a brief time; but as hyperesthesiadiminishes the period of retention is lengthened, until an instrument can be keptin place without causing severe suffering for ten or fifteen minutes. It isnot desirable to use cocain. Its use is not free from danger and, further, it
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Fig. 911.—Oberlanders anteroposterior dilator. obtunds the sensibility so that undue violence may be used, and it increasespostoperative inflammation. Before and after using an instrument the ure-thra must be cleansed by irrigation with salt solution or permanganate ofpotassium. When the urethra becomes tolerant to instrumentation, a special dilatoris employed to act particularly on the area of disease. If in the beginning oftreatment the caliber of the urethra is equal to or greater than No. 21 of the