Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Abnormal Conditions of the Sexual and Pelvic Organs, Which Impair Virility
The barbarous method of forcing through a stricture with a conical bougie, and piercing it with a pointed one, will often greatly increase it; indeed, it is impossible, at this moment, to recall an accident, or evil result of practice, that has not afforded us one or many examples of stricture.
Strictures vary in degree, from the twelfth of an inch to two inches in length we have had examples of more than three inches of the urethra obstructed by one or more strictures of almost cartilaginous hardness. They are rarely at the opening or mouth; most frequently they are situated at the fourth or fifth inch of the urethra, when that passage is seven inches in length; it is not usually longer: stricture rarely exists at the neck of the bladder.
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