The Pathology and treatment of venereal diseases (electronic resource)- including the results of recent investigations upon the subject (1866) (14771195585)

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Title: The Pathology and treatment of venereal diseases (electronic resource): including the results of recent investigations upon the subject

Year: 1866 (1860s)

Authors: Bumstead, Freeman J. (Freeman Josiah), 1826-1879

Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases Sexually transmitted diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases Venereology

Publisher: Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea

Contributing Library: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library

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investigations, to assign to stricture a seat posterior to its truesituation. I shall not waste time in quoting the different opinions whichhave been expressed upon this disputed point, but refer at once tothe results obtained by Mr. Thompson from a careful and laboriousexamination of over three hundred preparations of stricture con-tained in the chief museums of Paris, London, and Edinburgh. Itis only in this manner, by post-mortem inspection, that the localityof stricture can be ascertained with certainty and accuracy; andMr. Thompsons conclusions will doubtless be regarded as decisive,until controverted by an examination of a still larger number of 1 An Essay on Strictures of the Urethra, by H. G. Jameson, M. D., Surgeon to th<jBaltimore Hosp., Am. Med. Recorder, 1824, vol. vii., p. 251. 17 258 STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA. specimens, conducted with equal care and fidelity—an event notlikeiy soon to happen. Fig. 14. The spongy portion. The membranousportion. The prostaticportion.

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Region No. IIL B,e°;ion No. II. Region No. i. A healthy urethra, eight inches and a half in length, slit up from the upper part, accuratelyreduced on scale from a drawing made from the original while fresh, to half the natural size.On the left-hand side are indicated the anatomical divisions of the urethra, and on the rightthe boundaries of the regions referred to in relation to the locality of stricture. (Thompson.) In relation to the locality of stricture, Mr. Thompson divides theurethra into the three following regions:— I. The Sub-pubic Curvature; which comprises an inch of thecanal before, and three-quarters of an inch behind, the junction be-tween the spongy and membranous regions, thus including the wholeof the membranous portion. II. The Centre of the Spongy Portion, a region extendingfrom the anterior limit of the preceding, to within two inches and a SEAT. 259 half of the external meatus, and measuring therefore about two anda half to three inches in length.III. The Exter

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