Abstract
The purpose of these notes is to recall attention to some of the ready and simple methods of relieving sufferers from the distress caused by retention of urine due to urethral stricture. This kind of urinary retention is seldom sudden; it is ordinarily preceded by difficult urination, whose increase—from month to month, from week to week, from day to day—is proportionate to the diminution of the urethral caliber at the diseased point, and also to the degree of muscular spasm of that part of the canal. For several weeks prior to complete retention, although urination be very frequent, the bladder is not emptied; this constitutes incomplete retention of urine which, from its stagnate state, soon gives rise to cystitis. At length the urine ceases to flow; there is then complete retention. This urine, accumulating for thirty-six or forty-eight hours, begins to slobber involuntarily, when the complete relapses into incomplete retention.
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