Prostatectomy for Retention of Urine

Khaja Mogul, a strong healthy-looking Mahomedan, aged about 60, was shown to me one morning at the Afzul Ganj Hospital, Hyderabad, while I was acting as Residency Surgeon; he stated that for the last twelve months he had had increasing difficulty in passing water, and that twelve days before the date on which I saw him, he had been unable to pass any urine and had to come to hospital to have the urine drawn off two or three times a day. He was a very powerful, strong man, a field labourer, who could not remember ever having been ill ; all his organs were apparently perfectly healthy; urine contained no albumen, but a slight phosphatic deposit. The prostate could be easily felt to be considerably enlarged ; there was no stricture of urethra. I strongly advised him to undergo an operation, and to this he consented and was admitted to hospital. He was admitted to hospital, April 3rd; bladder was washed out once a day with boracic acid solution and he was given small doses of quinine and dilute nitric acid till the urine