The Symptomatic Stage Tumors
The Symptomatic Stage - Tumors Of The Bladder And Prostate. The Symptomatic Stage.—the Larger Proportion Of Bladder Tumors Sooner Or Later Pass Out Of The Quiescent Condition, And Enter Upon The Second Or More Active Stage Of Their Existence. Whether This Transition Is Slow Or Rapid, Gradual Or Sudden, Greatly ...
The Symptoms
The Symptoms Which It Is Customary To Call Urmic Are : 1. Headache And Sleeplessness, Which Come On In Attacks Of Short Duration, Or May Be Continued For Many Weeks. The Headache May Be Of Mild Type, Or Very Severe. In Extreme Cases The Pain Is So Se Vere And ...
The Urine Quantity
The Urine Quantity. In Healthy Adults Consuming The Ordinary Quantities Of Fluids And Solids The Daily Discharge Of Urine Is 1,250 Cc., Or 50 Fluid Ounces, Or 3 Pints. This Quantity Is Liable To A Considerable Amount Of Variation According To The Quantity Of Fluid Taken And The Amount Of ...
Toilet Of The Bladder
Toilet Of The Bladder. Toilet Of The Bladder.—after The General Consideration Of Cystitis, I Shall Now Refer To What May Appropriately Be Called The Toilet Of The Bladder. This Will Include, First, The Mechanism, And Then The Ma Terials Appropriate To Each Class Of Case. In The First Place, It ...
Topography Female Bladder And
Topography Female Bladder And Urethra. The Female Bladder Distended With Air And Inspected Per Ure Thrae, By The Speculum, As I Shall Describe Farther On, Has More Or Less The Form Of A Hollow Ovoid, Into Which The Observer Is Peeping Through A Hole In Its Wall; By Turning The ...
Transient Phosphatic Urine
Transient Phosphatic Urine. In This Class The Urine Does Not Contain Phosphates In Excess. Its Normal Quantum Of Amorphous Phosphate Of Lime (bone Earth) Is Merely Thrown Down By Reason Of An Increased Alkalinity Of The Urine. It May Appear In Patients In Complete Health, Who Have Indulged In Sweet ...
Treatment Acute Exuadativenephritis
Treatment - Acute Exuadative Nephritis. We Have To Treat An Acute Exudative Inflammation Of The Kidneys, Which Naturally Runs Its Course In Four Weeks And Terminates In Re Covery. We Have Also To Treat The Symptoms Of This Nephritis— The Scanty Urine, Dropsy, Vomiting, Anmmia, And Cerebral Symptoms. We Have ...
Treatment Acute Productiveor
Treatment - Acute Productive Or Diffuse Nephritis. In Those Cases In Which The Disease Behaves Like An Acute Exuda Tive Nephritis The Indications For Treatment Are The Same As In The Latter Disease, Although The Results Are Not So Satisfactory. The Subacute Cases Have To Be Managed Differently. At First ...
Treatment Acute Prostatitis
Treatment - Acute Prostatitis. The Treatment Of Acute Prostatitis Should Be Very Active. A Brisk Mercurial Purge Should Be Ordered At Once, And Be Followed By A Full Dose Of Some Saline In The Course Of Three Or Four Hours. Ten To Fifteen Grains Of Calomel Followed By Hall An ...
Treatment Chronic Congestionof
Treatment - Chronic Congestion Of The Kidneys. Although We Are Unable To Remove The Mechanical Interference With The Circulation, Yet The Condition Of The Patients Can Often Be Very Much Improved. The Main Indications Are To Improve The Character Of The Circulation And To Remove The Dropsy. In Order To ...
Treatment Chronic Productivenephritis
Treatment - Chronic Productive Nephritis Without The Progress Of The Nephritis Can Be Favorably Affected By Atten Tion To The Diet And Mode Of Life, And To Climate. As Regards The Diet, The Quantity Of Sugars And Starches Taken Should Be Restricted, And The Ingestion Of Fats Encouraged. The Use ...
Treatment Chronic Productiveor
Treatment - Chronic Productive Or Diffuse Nephritis With In The Second And Third Group Of Cases Just Described The Attacks Are Of Acute Or Subacute Character. The Conditions Calling For Treat Ment Are: The Nephritis; The Albuminuria; The Dropsy; The Headache And Sleeplessness; The Nausea And Vomiting; The Contraction Of ...
Treatment Chronic Prostatitis
Treatment - Chronic Prostatitis. In The Follicular Or Parenchymatous Form Of Chronic Prostatitis, The Case Is To Be Regarded Essentially As One Of Infection Of The Mu Cous Membrane Of The Prostatic Urethra, And Of The Epithelium Lining The Ducts And Follicles Of The Organ. Its Treatment Is That Of ...
Treatment Chyluria
Treatment - Chyluria. Now That The True Pathology Of The Disease Is Understood, The Reason Of The Hopelessness, In Most Cases, Of Treatment Is Fully Appre Ciated. Manson Insists That The Main Point Is To Endeavor To Get The Rup Tured Varix, By Which The Chyle Is Leaking Into The ...
Treatment Hyperaemia Orheperemia
Treatment - Hyperaemia Or Heperemia Of The Prostate. The First Principles Of Treatment Of Prostatic Hyperemia Involve All Of The Rules Of Genito-urinary Hygiene, A Subject Which Can Not Here Be Exhaustively Discussed. Briefly, The Urine Should Be Rendered Unirritating By The Administration Of Bland Fluids, Of Which Distilled Water ...
Treatment Renal Calculus
Treatment - Renal Calculus. The Treatment Of Renal Calculus May Be Considered Under The Three Headings Which The Subject Naturally Presents : (1) Preventive; (2) Medicinal; And (3) Surgical. It Is The Last Section That More Strictly Comes Within The Limits Of This Article. It May, However, Be Said Before ...
Treatment Spasmodic Stricture
Treatment - Spasmodic Stricture. Obviously, The First Indication In The Treatment Of Spasmodic Stric Ture Is To Remove All Predisposing Causes As Far As Possible. Such Conditions As The Gouty And Rheumatic Diatheses Require Correction. General Nervous Irritability And Hyperdesthesia May Require Nervine Tonics, Or Sedatives And Anti-spasmodics, Or Both, ...
Treatment Tuberculosis Ofthe
Treatment - Tuberculosis Of The Prostate. Where Prostatic Tuberculosis Is Secondary To Disease Of Other Important Organs, The Treatment Is That Of The Primary Disease, Except Ing In So Far As Local Measures Of Palliation May Be Instituted. Where It Is Primary Or Secondary To Tuberculosis Of Contiguous Organs, The ...
Treatment Urethritis
Treatment Urethritis. The Treatment Of Urethritis Comprises A Greater Variety Of Methods And Remedies Than Almost Any Disease Which Could Be Mentioned. This Fact Is In Itself Strong Circumstantial Evidence Of The Self-limited And—as Far As Specific Medication Is Concerned—incurable Character Of The Disease. Manifold As Are The Panaceas And ...
Treatment Of Chronic Urethritis
Treatment Of Chronic Urethritis. The Treatment Of Chronic Urethritis Requires More Radical Meas Ures Than Are Warrantable In The Acute Stages Of The Affection, And Incidentally A Greater Variety Of Remedies, These Being Necessitated By The Varying Character Of The Special Causes Which Tend To The Per Petuation Of The ...
Treatment Of Hematuria Or
Treatment Of Hematuria Or Haematuria. Before Considering The Treatment For The Various Forms Of Spon Taneous Hematuria, It Would Be As Well To Consider Whether There Is Any Which Had Better Be Left Unchecked. I Believe That In Hard Carcinomata Of The Bladder, In Engorged Senile Enlargement Of The Prostate, ...
Treatment Of Pyuria
Treatment Of Pyuria. Stimson Wisely Draws Attention To The Necessity Of Preventing Pyelitis, And This Is Possible To A Considerable Extent In Those Classes Which Furnish The Largest Number Of Cases—the Calculous And Ascending Forms. For Prevention Of The Former The Reader Is Re Ferred To The Article On Stone ...
Treatment Of Stricture Of
Treatment Of Stricture Of The Urethra. General Management.—the Successful Treatment Of Stricture Of The Urethra Is Dependent Not Only Upon The Proper Selection Of Surgical Methods Of Management And Skill In Their Application, But Upon The Manner In Which The General Management Of The Case Is Conducted. Careful Attention On ...
Treatment Of The Hypertrophied
Treatment Of The Hypertrophied Prostate. Until Within Recent Years The Treatment Of Hypertrophy Of The Prostate Embraced Only Measures Of Palliation. Internal Medication And Treatment By Pressure In The Hope Of Absorbing The Adventitious Tissue Composing The Overgrowth Had Alike Proven Ineffectual. Rad Ical Methods Of Surgical Relief Were Considered ...
Treatment Of The Male
Treatment Of The Male Urethra. In Slight Injuries Of The Urethra, The Practitioner Must Have In View The Danger Of Subsequent Stricture. This May Be Averted By Systematic Sounding During The Healing Of The Wound. Hemorrhage May Be Controlled By Pressure, The Ice-bag, Or The Retained Catheter: If The Injury ...
Tubercular Ulceration Of The
Tubercular Ulceration Of The Bladder. The Symptoms Of Primary Tuberculosis Of The Bladder Are Very Characteristic. They Are Nearly Always Thought At First To Be Due To Stone, Though The Differences Are Marked. A Young Male, * Sixteen To Twenty-five Years Of Age, Often Without Any Venereal History But With ...
Tumors Of The Kidney
Tumors Of The Kidney. The Subjoined List Of Tumors, Given In Tabular Form, Shows At A Glance The Various Kinds Of Enlargement Of The Organ, Or Of The Struc Tures Immediately Connected With It, Which Clinically Constitute A Renal Tumor. To Render The Table Complete We Include, On The One ...
Tumors Of The Prostate
Tumors Of The Prostate. As The Prostate Is Composed Of Fibrous, Muscular (unstriated), And Epithelium-lined Gland Tissue, We May Expect To Meet With Connective Tissue Tumors, Myoma, Adenoma, And Carcinoma, And These We Find To Be The New Growths Of This Part. Myoma.—unstriated Muscular Tumors Of The Prostate Are Met ...
Typical Cases Of Renal
Typical Cases Of Renal Carcinoma. Case 1. Renal Carcinoma, Hemorrhage, Retinal Ancemia.—g. W., Mt. 44, Under Mr. Mccarthy. Twelve Months Previous To Coming Under My Observation The Patient, Being In Perfect Urinary Health, Was Lifting A Moderate-sized Weight When He Felt Something Snap In His Left Side. He Passed A ...
Uraemia Or Uremia
Uraemia Or Uremia. It Is Well Established That The Principal Function Of The Kidneys Is To Remove From The Body A Quantity Of Excrementitious Substances. It Is Equally Well Established That A Number Of The Diseases Of The Kidney Interfere With This Function And Allow The Excrementitious Sub Stances To ...
Ureteral Fistulae
Ureteral Fistulae. Apart From The Conditions Already Described, A Stilliddium Of Urine From The Genitals May Be Seen When There Is An Abnormal Communi Cation Between One Of The Ureters And Some Portion Of The Genital Tract. The Striking Peculiarity Of These Cases Is, That, In Spite Of The Constant ...
Urethritis
Urethritis. Urethritis Is The Most Frequent Disease Affecting The Male Genito Urinary Tract. It Is Usually Contracted During Sexual Intercourse And Is So Exceptionally Acquired In Any Other Way That It Has Been Termed The Most Venereal Of The Class Of Diseases To Which It Belongs. The Most Common Term ...
Urethro Vaginal Fistula
Urethro - Vaginal Fistula. Fistula Affecting The Urethro-vaginal Septum, And Establishing A Communication Between The Urethral And Vaginal Tracts Without In Volvement Of The Bladder, Is Rare. Such Fistula May Arise From Slough Due To Prolonged Pressure Dur Ing Labor, Or From A Buttonhole Operation By Which The Communica Tion ...
Varieties Acute Prostatitis
Varieties - Acute Prostatitis. Acute Prostatitis Presents Itself In Several Forms According To The Method Of Causation And The Structures To Which The Acute Inflamma Tion Is Mainly Localized. Without The Slightest Disposition To Be Dog Matic In The Matter Of Classification, The Author Inclines To The View That From ...
Varieties Hypertrophy Ofthe
Varieties - Hypertrophy Of The Prostate. Hypertrophy Of The Prostate Presents Itself In Several Different Forms, Depending Mainly Upon The Arrangement Of The Elements Com Posing The Abnormal Growth. It Is Occasionally Associated With Athe Romatous Degeneration And Thickening Of The Walls Of The Bladder, The Prostate Being Diffusely Enlarged ...
Varieties Of Chronic Urethritis
Varieties Of Chronic Urethritis. Chronic Urethritis Presents Itself Under Three Different Forms: 1. The Acute Inflammation Subsides To A Certain Extent, But Re Mains Subacute, With Occasional Acute Exacerbations Accompanied By A Thick, Purulent Discharge For An Indefinite Period. In This Form Of Chronic Inflammation There Is Continual Discomfort, With ...
Vesical Calculus
Vesical Calculus. In By Far The Greater Number Of Cases Of Vesical Calculus (93 Per Cent.*) The Onset Bladder Symptoms Consist Of Uneasiness In The Vesi Cal Region, Increased Desire To Urinate, Increased Frequency Of Mictu Rition, An Unsatisfied Feeling After Urination, And Some Smarting Or Pin-pricking At The Under ...
Vesico Vaginal Fistula
Vesico - Vaginal Fistula. Vesico-vaginal Fistula, Or The Establishment Of An Accidental Com Munication Between The Bladder And The Vagina By Means Of A Defect In The Base Of The Bladder, Is Not Infrequently Met With In Two Classes Of Cases. First, Those In Which A Cancerous Disease Extending From ...
Washing Out The Ureters
Washing Out The Ureters And Pelves Of The Kidneys. I Shall Notice Briefly, As But Indirectly Pertaining To My Subject, One Of The Most Important Developments Of This Method Of Investigation. I Have Found That By Means Of The Catheter Introduced Into The Ureter, Con Nected By A Long, Delicate ...
Women Neoplasms
Women - Neoplasms. Cancer Of The Bladder Is Often Observed Through Extension Of The Disease From The Cervix Uteri, But Primary New Growths Of The Blad Der Walls Are Rare. The Relative Frequency Of Tumors In The Male And Female Affecting The Bladder Walls Primarily Has Been Estimated In The ...