Excerpt from Letters Concerning the Diseases of the Urethra Note. To anatomy as the surest guide. I am aware of the common opinion, that nothing new can be said upon the subject Of strio ture in the urethra. This only proves to me that these observations come before the public in circumstances peculiarly disad vantageous. But it is certain that, of many excellent surgeons in the metropolis, with whom I am acquainted, there are not two of them prosecuting the same plan of cure in diseases of the urethra; and many in the country believe that they are following an established method, when they are in truth doing outrage to every principle deducible from the structure and the morbid appearance of the parts con cerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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