Excerpt from Clinical Lectures on Stricture of the Urethra and Enlargement of the Prostate The immediate treatment of retention of urine arising from either of these causes is practically the same. It con sists in clearing out the lower bowel at once by an enema, placing the patient in a hot bath, and giving opium by the mouth, or morphia hypodermically. Should these measures not suffice, a soft olivary catheter of medium size, 8 or 9 of the English scale, should be passed slowly and gently, or a silver catheter if necessary. If there be any difficulty in introducing the catheter, the patient should be anaesthetised, when the spasmodic element will entirely disappear and the instrument, as a rule, pass readily. Organic stricture may be defined as a permanent diminution in the calibre of the urethra, due to the development of organized lymph or scar tissue in its walls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.