When the bougieis required to be hollow, a piece of polished metallic wire is introduced into the axis of the silk; or tin-foil is rolled round the wire and the composition applied as before.
A bougie of this description, of moderate size, and slightly oiled, or wetted with glycerin or gum-water, may be passed through the whole length of the urethra of a healthy person without causing the slightest pain.
Palpation with the oesophageal bougie is competent to reveal the existence of a large sac by the facility with which the terminal extremity of the sound can be moved in the cavity.
The mere passage of the bougie will often effect immediate relaxation of the spasm.
Meantime, it may be necessary from time to time to pass the bougie just before food is taken.
In more obstinate cases a bougie covered with ointment of belladonna should be used daily.
To explore the interior of the gall-bladder an aspirator-trocar is introduced; any fluid intended for microscopical examination is then withdrawn, and through the canula a flexible whalebonebougie is passed.
It sometimes happens, in individuals with impaired sensitiveness of the epiglottis or vestibule of the larynx, that the exploratory bougie is introduced into the air-passage instead of the gullet.
When the lumen of a stricture is tortuous it is best to use a long rather flexible rubber bougie having an olive-shaped extremity.
The actual seat of any individual spasm is best determined by exploration with the oesophageal bougie or by auscultating the oesophagus during the passage of a bolus.
The best means to do this is by the injection of hot water with the long elasticbougie three or four times a day, and to assist this with laxatives.
If the accumulation occurs in the rectum, the introduction of a tube or bougie is prevented by the impacted mass, which can be gotten away only by the fingers or by some instrument.
Section of the Rectum, showing the rectal pouches, and a fistula with a bougie passed through it, the mucous membrane dissected off.
Over the fistula the mucous membrane has been removed, and a bougie has been passed through the canal.
That an inverted or sort of antiperistaltic motion sometimes exists in the urethra, is shown by a soft bougie being in such cases drawn into the bladder after having been passed but a short way into the urethra.
The bougieshould be slightly curved in its farther extremity, warmed either at the fire or by friction with the fingers, and well oiled, previously to its introduction.
Some days after, other portions of bougie were extracted along with numerous hairs; and these continued to be discharged for many weeks.
Syncope sometimes follows the passing of a bougie along the urethra.
When a soft bougie is introduced, it is resisted by the stricture, and on examining the instrument when withdrawn, the transverse and central impression on its point marks the existence of the bridle.
These apertures are numbered, and the bougie which fills one has the corresponding number imprinted on it.
After sufficient time has been allowed for the irritation following the first introduction to subside, a larger bougie is to be passed, and retained as long as its presence can be endured.
It may be necessary to repeat the introduction of the bougie a few times, at considerable intervals.
Bougie is a town of ruins, and on the quay, when one arrives, one sees such a magnificent ruin, that one might imagine one was at the opera.
The author's laryngeal bougie for the dilatation of cicatricial laryngeal stenosis.
Often there is present a pouching of the esophagus above a stricture, in which the bougie may lodge and perforate.
The tightness of the grasping of the bougie by the stricture on withdrawal, determines the limitation of sizes to be used.
Blind esophageal bouginage is highly dangerous, for the lumen of the stricture is usually eccentric and the bougie is therefore apt to perforate the wall rather than find the small opening.
Perforation results because in reality the bougieis in a pocket of the suprastrictural eccentric dilatation.
A silk-woven esophagoscopic bougie or the metallic tracheal bougie may be used, with proper caution.
A metallic form of this bougie is useful in the trachea; but is not so safe for esophageal use.
A silk-woven endoscopic bougie placed in position by ocular guidance, and left in situ for from half to one hour daily, may prevent severe contraction, if used early in the stage of cicatrization.
The destruction of the ships atBougie was a severe blow to the Algerines.
He refitted the fireship at sea, and then went on, reaching Bougie on the 2nd of May.
On the 8th May a convoy of ammunition was seen approaching Bougiealong the coast, escorted by Arab horsemen.
There stood the bougie quenched on the drawers; but where was the letter?
At the end of the 13th century Bougie passed under the dominion of the Hafsides, and in the 15th century it became one of the strongholds of the Barbary pirates.
In 1555, however, Bougie was taken by Salah Rais, the pasha of Algiers.
Finally, near Bougie he happened to receive a courier sent by the French commandant.
The silence within was oppressive, but the flickering bougie warned me that I must make an effort, and without allowing myself time to think I hastily turned the key and opened the door.
The occupation of Bougie by General Camille Alphonse Trezel in October 1833 gave the French a footing at another point of this eastern province.
Djidjelli, a hundred kilometres east of Bougie by a wonderful coast road, was the ancient colony of Igilgili of Augustus.
All the same Bougie has little enough of interest for the conventional tourist.
Bougie is a coast town, and one of the terminals of the steamship lines from Marseilles.
Because tourists go and come via Algiers, or via Algiers and Tunis or vice versa, Bougie is not known of all travellers in North Africa.
Their preserved figs and ripe and unripe olives are of the first quality and bring the highest prices in the markets of Algiers, Bougie or Beni-Mançour.
Bougie is the most splendidly situated of all the African Mediterranean ports.
The bougie economique of the French is described in the Journal de Paris for 1782.
This poison is the juice of a tree, that grows in Macassar, and in the Bougie islands.
Some, more bold, intrust the bougie performance to the patient in order that a daily dilatation and stimulation may be kept up until "recovery from the disease is effected.
Strange to say, there are in New York physicians who are in the habit of inserting a rubber bougie up their patients' rectums two or three times a week for the cure of constipation.
We abstain from dismounting, but sweep the city with field-glasses from the deck of the ship, recollecting that Bougiewas bombarded in the reign of the Merrie Monarch by Sir Edward Spragg.
Bougie lies on a narrow and stony beach in the embrace of the mountain, white and coquettish, spreading up the rocky wall as far as it can, and looking aloft to the protecting summit two thousand feet above it.
Bougie was the chief shipbuilding port and the timber was mainly drawn from the country behind it.
They attempted in 1512 to take Bougie from the Spaniards, but were beaten off, and Arouj lost an arm, shattered by an arquebus shot.
The town of Bougie was then the most notorious haunt of these "skimmers of the sea.
On reaching the isthmus resistance may be met with, but by the exercise of slight pressure the bougie can usually be made to pass through it; if there be much resistance the bougie should be withdrawn and a finer one substituted.
The tip of the bougie may break off whilst in the Eustachian tube.
Although no force should ever be employed, the largest possible bougie should be passed at each successive sitting until complete dilatation has been obtained.
The bougie is passed by means of the right hand into the cervical canal until the internal os uteri is reached; resistance will now be felt.
As the passage of the bougie causes a certain amount of reaction, it should not be passed oftener than once a week.
It will be found on attempting to withdraw the instrument that it is grasped by the internal os uteri; in the course of one to five minutes this spasm will relax, and only then should the bougie be withdrawn.
If the catheter be not in position, the bougie may pass behind the tip of the Eustachian orifice and enter Rosenmüller’s fossa.
If there be no pain and no resistance, the bougie is very gently pushed on until the beginning of its second black band just enters the catheter.
If the obstruction be fairly recent and limited to the pharyngeal end of the Eustachian tube, excellent results may be obtained by using either the simple bougie or the catgut variety moistened with a 5% solution of silver nitrate.
Auvard’s speculum has been inserted, a volsella attached to the anterior cervical lip and a bougie passed.
For this purpose the bougie may be marked at its outer extremity.
To prevent this unfortunate disaster the bougie should be carefully examined before passing it, to see that it is not cracked nor broken.
On passing the bougie through the catheter into the Eustachian tube, it is essential to know how far its point is projecting beyond the point of the catheter.
The bougie should then be held nearly horizontal, with its concavity over the left groin of the patient, the penis being raised in the surgeon's left hand.
The catheter should be tied in, and left for two, sometimes for three days, when it can generally be removed with safety, and a bougie should be passed at intervals of three or four, till the wound is healed.
He passed a small bougie or wire into the bladder, over which were slipped straight tubes of varying size, with perfect certainty that they could not leave the urethra.
A case is related in some medical publication, in which a catgut bougie was carried into the bladder, and after remaining many weeks, was voided piece-meal in a semi-dissolved state.
The patient should introduce a bougie always before he makes water, and endeavour to make it as slowly as possible.
When the stone is pushed against or into the neck of the bladder, great pain is produced; this may sometimes be relieved by the introduction of a bougie to push the stone back into the fundus of the bladder.
A bougie may be used to push back a stone into the bladder.
The demand was not complied with, and Bougie has continued to consume more than its quota of the six thousand men at which M.
We received a visit from a dragoman sent by the Dey, who asked whether we persisted in maintaining that Bougie had been our point of departure, and not Cape Matifou, or some neighbouring port.
The communication by sea between Bougie and Algiers was not so difficult, even with the "sandalas," as the Caïd of the former town wished to assure me.
In the figure, part of a bougie traverses the urethra through both strictures and lodges upon the enlarged prostate.
Part of a bougie is seen traversing the false aperture from the meatus before to the urethra behind.
A bougie is seen to perforate the third lobe, and this is the most frequent mode in which, under such circumstances, and with instruments of the usual imperfect form, access may be gained to the bladder for the relief of retention of urine.
A bougie is represented entering by the meatus, traversing the upper part of the sac, and passing into the membranous part of the urethra beyond.
Part of a bougie appears traversing the false opening and the meatus.
The meatus and the false opening have approached by the contraction of the cicatrix; in consequence of which, also, the apex of the glans is distorted towards the urethra; a bougie introduced by the meatus occupies the urethral canal.
The land vanished, till only Bougie and its quay and the Celestine remained, with one last detached fragment of mountain high over us.
By this you will see that Bougie must wait until I call that way again.
At Bougie they seemed to have left it all to Allah, with the usual result.
There were intervals when the full expanse of Bougie Bay became visible, with its concourse of mountains crowded to the shore.
It is to be borne in mind that in some cases the passage of a bougie may be attended with a considerable degree of shock, and cases are on record in which this has proved fatal without any gross lesion being found after death.
For the passage of a bougie the patient should be seated on a chair with the head thrown back and supported from behind by an assistant, and he is directed to take full deep breaths rapidly.
In testing the calibre of the gullet it is found that on one occasion a full-sized bougie may pass easily and be completely arrested at another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bougie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: candle; dip; taper
