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Title: Clinical lectures on the surgical diseases of the urinary organs
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Freyer, P. J. (Peter Johnston), Sir, 1851-1921
Subjects: Genitourinary organs Urogenital System Urogenital System Urethra
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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teral open:m f the kidneys. Catheterization of the Ureters, This modified I (6) is employed Foi • 1.a 1 f the ureters, and thus drawing oil the urine 1 , .i< h kidn< \ « paratel; , I ■ nalysis ol the separate ilam the relative effii a m 3 1 I th< kid: matt< 1 < t \ nal imp*a tan<<-. .1 ■••• 1 hall ee latei on, when we come to the consideration f operative inter CATHETERIZATION OF THE URETERS 71 The cystoscope armed with the catheter (l) is introducedinto the bladder as already described, and rotated towardsthe trigone till the ureteral opening is brought into view.The catheter is then pushed on till it is seen projectingin the bladder. By rotating the little wheel (k) the endof the catheter is elevated from the plane of the axis of theinstrument till its point is placed opposite the ureteralopening, and it is then pushed onwards into the ureter till itreaches the renal pelvis, when, after a short time, urine
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Fig. 36. begins to trickle out of the external end of the catheter, andis collected in a glass vessel placed for that purpose. In some cases catheterisation of the ureters is easilyaccomplished. In others, considerable manipulation is re-quired in rotating the wheel to the necessary extent, and atthe same time advancing and withdrawing the catheter,before the catheter is engaged in the ureteral canal, when, asa rule, it glides onwards without difficulty, the progress ofthe catheter, which appears greatly magnified, resemblingthat of a worm burrowing in earth. In the female an anaesthetic is rarely required for thisoperation ; in the male frequently so. THE URINE SEPARATOR My friend, Mr. ). H. Wilkin, formerly House-Surgeon,St. Peters Hospital, and now of New eastle-on-T\Tie, has invented an ingenious addition to the cystoscope, for thepurpose of keeping the catheter aseptic during its introduc-tion (vide the Lancet, May 4, 1967). The Urine Separator. It will be convenient to refer her

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