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Arch Dermatol. 2002;138:166.

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VOL. XX.

FEBRUARY, 1902.

NO. 2.

Selections.

GENITO-URINARY DISEASES.

Removal of Two Hundred and Eighty Grains of White Wax from the Male Urinary Bladder.—DR. ORVILLE HORWITZ. (Proceedings of the Phil. County Med. Soc., 1900).

G. L., twenty-five years of age, was admitted to the wards of the Jefferson Hospital during last September. He complained of a frequent desire to urinate, followed by hemorrhage at the termination of the act. Pain, referred to the neck of the bladder and to the meatus of the penis, was experienced at the end of micturition. He stated that, twenty-four hours previous to his admission he indulged in sexual intercourse and, in order to prevent his mistress from becoming impregnated, he inserted into the urethra a roll of white wax, eight inches long and about twenty-six millimeters in circumference. This was passed into the urethra until its end was just within the meatus. Almost . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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