This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... in the walls anil around the mouths of the tubules. Generally, a urethral inflammation accompanies this condition of the glands. In time the bladder and the kidneys become affected, all of the urinary organs becoming involved, unless the patient succumb.before the disease hascompleted its progress. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... in the walls anil around the mouths of the tubules. Generally, a urethral inflammation accompanies this condition of the glands. In time the bladder and the kidneys become affected, all of the urinary organs becoming involved, unless the patient succumb.before the disease hascompleted its progress. Occasionally polypi or papillomatous growths of small size are found along the urethra, due probably to inflammation of the mucous follicles and papillae of the mucous membrane. Symptoms.--Same as for other forms of inflammation of these structures. Tuberculous disease of Skene's-glands has very important significance in the fact that it indicates the commencement of general tuberculosis of the urinary organs. Diagnosis.--By exclusion of gonorrhea and vulvitis. Treatment.--Consists in freely laying open the ducts. The patient is placed on the left side; a Sims speculum is used to separate the labia and retract the perineum. The position and depth of the tubules having been ascertained, the probe-pointed blade of a very fine scissors is introduced, and the posterior wall divided through its entire length. To prevent union of the parts a small piece of cotton, saturated with persulphate of iron, should be packed in between the divided edges, or the glandular surface may be cauterized with carbolic acid or tincture of iodine. XIV. Cicatricial Fistulae of the Vagina. Varieties Of Fistulae.--1. Those that give passage to urine. 2. Those that give passage to fecal matter. Urinary Fistulas.--The location of the fistula, produced by labor, varies with the relations of the bladder and urethra to the superior border of the pubis at the time of labor, as the fistula is produced by pressure against this bony prominence. The walls of the uterus itself are...
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