Lanterna Rally

Author: John Harvey Kellogg

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781230013022

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...in passing urine, the oatheter must be employed. Great care must be taken to avoid infection. The catheter should be kept immersed in a solution of one part formalin to 200 parts water. A pint jar full of the solution may be kept for the purpose. After use the catheter should be thoroughly washcd, then placed in the jar, and the top screwed tight, till again needed for use. If formalin is not obtainable, strong, hot soapsuds may be successfully used. The water should be saturated with soap, and at a temperature near the boiling point. The catheter should be left in this solution for ten minutes before using. Before introducing the catheter, the hands and the genitals should be thoroughly washed with warm, strong soapsuds. The catheter should be passed very gently, care being takento avoid undue pressure or violence of any sort. The improper use of the catheter often gives rise to inflammation of the urethra, to acute cystitis, and chronic catarrh of the bladder, which greatly aggravates the difficulties which arise from enlargement of the prostate. The inflammation is likely to extend to the ureters and the kidneys, and may terminate fatally; indeed, a fatal termination occurs through involvement of the kidneys in a great majority of these cases, after years of suffering. When the obstruction is so great that the bladder cannot be entirely emptied without the catheter, surgi cal interference is, in most cases, positively required. ' The great improvements which have been made in this branch of surgery within the last few years offer very great hope, and every person suffering in this way should have the benefit of the advice of a skilled specialist in this department of surgery. The improvement of surgical methods makes it possible to...