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Title: Diseases of the bladder and prostate, and obscure affections of the urinary organs, with diagrams illustrating the author's treatment of stone, without cutting, and numerous successfully treated cases with the spray treatment hitherto regarded as "incurable"
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Jones, David
Subjects: Bladder Prostate gland Urinary organs
Publisher: London, Simpkin
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ving,—a form ofexpression common with them. The operators hand is seensearching for the stone. The sound being flexible, and havingsurmounted the enlarged and distorted gland, is seen above thelevel of the urethral canal. During the search, it now meetsanother obstacle, viz., the posterior wall of the bladder. Thesound, provided with a metallic tip is now rotated downwards,and (being flexible) is made to glide gently and steadily till itreaches the stone (figure 2) which is immediately recognized bythe sound it yields. In some cases the stone cannot be made toroll from its position to the back of the bladder—hence thegreat advantage of the flexible sound. Figure 4 represents theordinary sound which is stiff and inflexible. Comparing thetwo, the reader will readily see what difficulties may beset thesurgeon when the prostatic portion of the urethra is tortuousand unyielding. It was in fact this difficulty (in J. P.s case-see Cases) which led the writer to invent the flexible sound.
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5^ SECTION II. DISEASED PROSTATE, Its Treatment and Cure. Disease of the prostate gland is a subject too vast to be fullydealt with in the limited space which can here be allotted tothe consideration of it—and the writer proposes therefore toconfine his remarks chiefly to that form of (supposed) incurabledisease of the prostate occurring in advanced and advancing life.Many of the cases treated by the writer, and appearing in part V.,show that chronic enlargement (hypertrophy as it is termed)of the prostate is far more amenable to treatment than authors onthe subject have supposed, particularly if taken in reasonable time.Those who have written on the subject, ancient or modern, Englishor Foreign, and whose works the writer has consulted, all seem tohave agreed in pronouncing the disease incurable. In a recent work written by Drs. W. H. Van Buren and E. L.Keys of New York, authors of considerable renown on diseases ofthe genito-urinary organs, the following occurs : In the presentsta

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