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Title: Operative gynecology :
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kelly, Howard A. (Howard Atwood), 1858-1943
Subjects: Gynecology Gynecology Gynecologic Surgical Procedures
Publisher: New York and London : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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CATHETERIZATION. 495 When the short metal catheter with a piece of rubber tubing on the end isinserted into the ureter for the purpose of collecting the urine of one side, it isbest to drop a small quantity of a concentrated aniline solution into the bladderso as to have positive evidence that the clear fluid escaping by the catheter isnot contaminated by the fluid in the bladder and that the catheter remains inplace in the ureter.
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Fig. 281.—Catheterizing both Ureters; the Separated Urines are being collected in TestTubes Plugged with Cotton and held in a Block. In making a thorough examination of urine collected directly from theureter five things must be inquired into: 1. The amount of fluid escaping at once upon the introduction of thecatheter. 2. The rate of flow during catheterization. 3. Physical properties of the urine, specific gravity, etc. 4. Chemical properties. 5. Bacteriological condition. 496 AFFECTIONS OF THE URETERS. The watch is taken out and the time of introduction noted, so that the rateof secretion may be determined by measuring the amount collected within adefinite time. When both ureters are to be catheterized the speculum is withdrawn andre-inserted beside the first catheter, and the other orifice found and catheterizedin like manner. Another way of securing separated urines from both uretersat the same time is to place one of the larger ureteral catheters in oneureter and then carefull

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