The Surgical Works, Or, Statement of the Doctrine and Practice of P. J. Desault, Surgeon in Chief of the Great Hospital of Humanity at Paris

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Excerpt from The Surgical Works, Or, Statement of the Doctrine and Practice of P. J. Desault, Surgeon in Chief of the Great Hospital of Humanity at Paris: Diseases of the Urinary PassagesDaran believed that, by varying the composition of his bougies, he could accommodate their virtue to every practical case. Their use was followed by some success, which resulted, not from the medicines that were in their composition, but from the compression exercised by them upon the urethra. They were in fashion for a long time. How often is this the case with remedies in medicine, when they offer a bait to credulity, an instrument to cupidity, or a refuge to ignorance.The diseases of the urinary passages appeared to be nothing more than the province of Charlatans until within twenty years, when genius began to assume the dominion over them. Many researches, which were made both in England and France, cast a new light upon the theory of fistulas, urinary abscesses and strio tures of -the canal. It was ascertained that the constant discharge of the urine through a permanent catheter was an essential object of their treatment. To have thus established the indication of the remedy, was the first step towards its perfection: the second was, to be assured of the possibility of its use. Under this view silver tubes presented only a difficult resource, those of elastic gum were discovered, and from thenceforth art could attain the object, which it could only con template 'before. Supple, ¿exible, and easily following all the curvatures of the canal, these kinds of tubes were free from the inconveniencies, and united almost all the advantages of the former.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.