The Canadian journal of medicine and surgery (1897) (14762415284)

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Title: The Canadian journal of medicine and surgery

Year: 1897 (1890s)

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Subjects: Medicine Surgery

Publisher: Toronto

Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, because of the complicated and expensive machinery thendeemed necessary, and the inevitable uncleanliness with which itwas associated. The cheap little apparatus which I have the honor of present-ing evolved itself from five years persistent study of the objections.With it, at less than one-fifth the price of the Janet irrigator, theoperator can grade the pressure for any depth of the urethra andfor the bladder, by the right thumb and index finger resting upon * Valentine, The Irrigation Treatment of Clap, International Journal ofSurgery, September, 1898. 36 THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF the flaiifje of the stop-cock. This, the essential part of tlie appar-atus, also catches the Huid as it spurts from the meatus, and directsit into the basin lield by tlie patient. Conse(;uently, nothing issoiled, even when a very stron<^ solution of potassic i)ermantranateis used. But it is not in gonorrhua alone that tlu irritrations proveuseful. Since I employed them, now over five years, after every

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ltd. Board to be attached to wall, the loj) to l)e ninefeet from the floor.h. Slidin);- cord to which hoisting cord is attached.<: Collar i o hold percolator.. .Sharp nozzle for average meatus.p. Dome-shaped nozzle for very large meatus.ij. Flat nozzle for very small meatus,c. Triple length shar)> nozzle for female meatus. Fig. 6—Valentines Urethral and IntravesicalIrrigator. instrumentation of the urethra or bladder, 1 have not a single caseof catheter-fever to record. That I am not alone in this requiresInit a glance at modern genito-urinary literature to prove. 7he C

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1897

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