Identifier: clinicallectures1901frey (find matches)
Title: Clinical lectures on stricture of the urethra and enlargement of the prostate
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Freyer, P. J. (Peter Johnston), Sir, 1851-1921
Subjects: Prostate Prostate Urethra Urethra Urethra Prostate
Publisher: New York : William Wood & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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s then gradually depressed into the horizontal position asit glides along the canal over the obstruction and into thebladder, the curved end being directed upwards towards theroof of the urethra. Sometimes a well-polished vulcanizedrubber catheter (Fig. 29) answers best. A timid patient likesit, as less liable to pain him ; but if the prostatic urethra isnarrowed from pressure of the lateral lobes it is not so easy tointroduce as a more rigid instrument. It has also the dis-advantage that, its walls being stout, the channel is com- 6-2 84 TREATMENT OF ENLARGED PROSTATE paratively narrow, so that the urine, if at all thick, will notflow through it readily. On the other hand, as it can beboiled without injury, it is readily rendered aseptic, and as itcoils up in a small space it can be carried about very easily.A soft and pliant cylindrical catheter will pass readily andanswer best when there is no obstruction caused by the middlelobe. When this lobe is much enlarged a bicoudee catheter
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