I quote the passage: '"Ruricolae nostri quando eas captare volunt, ad illorum latibula accedunt, tenuisque avenacae Fistulae sonum, apum murmuri non absimilem, modulantur.
"The Life of the Spider"
J. Henri Fabre
In the latter state, catheterism is useless, and the only means whereby the urethra may be rendered pervious in the proper direction is that of incising the stricture from the perinaeum, and after passing a catheter across the divided part into the bladder, to retain the instrument in this situation till the wound and the Fistulae heal and close under the treatment proper for this end.
"Surgical Anatomy"
Joseph Maclise