Text-Book of Diseases of the Kidneys and Genito-Urinary Organs, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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The obstacles to evacuation are very numerous, the principal ones being, according to Dickinson's statistics, hypertrophy of the prostate and stricture of the ureter. According to Goodhart, about half of those who suffer from lesions producing an obstacle to the emission of urine die of pyelonephritis. Post mortem this lesion is found in 41 per cent. Of patients suffering from urethral stricture, and in 74 per cent. Of those who suffer from hypertrophy of the prostate. To these two pathological causes paralysis of the bladder, of Spinal or cerebral origin, must be added (see Etiology of Cystitis and Paralysis of the Bladder as well as vesical calculus - both when operated upon and when not growth in the bladder, excessive phimosis, etc.

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