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Title: The surgical diseases of the genito-urinary organs including syphilis
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Keyes, E. L. (Edward Lawrence), 1843-1924
Subjects: Urology Syphilis
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Fig. 83. Fio. 81. METHOD OF OPERATING. 293 that its own original would not be suspected of bearing any relation-ship to it. The bottles of Thompson, Guyon, Otis, Hill, and others all will
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Fig. 83. work, but none so well, in my hands, as the instrument of Bigelow(Fig. 83). Bigelows tubes I find also as good as those of any other device. Iprefer the curved tubes for common use in old men, as I think theirintroduction bruises the prostate less than the straight tube. I have devised a straight tube (Fig. 84), for which I have only tosay that, introduced and drawn out to the vesical orifice of the urethra,and held there very accurately, it will sometimes get out a last frag-ment which a tube of the same size, not fully open at the end, will notdeliver. This tube is not easy to use. The surgeon not familiar withit is quite sure to pull its open end out into the prostatic sinus, andthen wonder why it does not work. It has a wooden obturator, armedwith a washer and a stop-cock, which allows its use without wettingthe bed—a thing hardly possible with the ordinary straight-tube. It isotherwise a simple tube open from end to end. I have constructed another tube also with washer

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