Diseases of the Bladder, Prostate Gland, and Urethra; Including a Practical View of Urinary Diseases, Deposits and Calculi

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1884 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. DISEASES OF THE URETHRA. No branch of Surgery possesses a more abundant literature than Urethral Diseases; and no subject, in my judgment, has been more overwritten. These diseases have been incidentally alluded to, as associated with vesical and prostatic affections, and may be thus enumerated: (1) Inflammation of the Urethra, or Urethritis, and its more specific form, Gonorrhoea; (2) Stricture or contraction of the canal, in some part or parts of its extent, --as a structural or organic and permanent condition, or as a spasmodic, or an inflammatory state; (3) Tumours occasionally; (4) Urethral Calculus. The results of Urethral obstruction comprise: Retention of Urine; Extravasation; Rapture of the IMadder; and Urinary Fistulae--ponile, scrotal, perineal, urethrovaginal, and vesico-vaginal fistula?. Urethritis.--Simple inflammation of the urethral mucous membrane may arise from various causes, at any age, and in either sex. Anyone, who may bo thus affected, experiences heat, pricking, and tension in the urethra, for a day or two, with some smarting or perhaps scalding sensation in passing water; symptoms which are followed by a muco-purulent discharge. Sometimes, the only symptom is this whitish discharge from tho urethra, unaccompanied with any inflammatory character. The diagnosis of this urethral affection, in either form, is very important, from its resemblance to gonorrhoea. In the active condition of simple urethritis, the distinction from gonorrhoea is extremely difficult; in the passive condition, it resembles gleet, but differs in the thicker and more opaque character of the urethral discharge. The causes of simple inflammation of the urethra differ also from that of gonorrhoea which arises from a specific contagion; though here, it must..