Phillips' Whips

Filiform bougies and followers

	Described by Charles Joseph Phillips, the filiform whips are negotiated blindly through the stricture. If a single whip will not pass through the stricture, several whips are inserted at the same time of which one will usually pass the stricture (the "faggot" method).
	A graduated set of dilators, each with a thread on the end to fix to a whip. The dilators are screwed on to the whip and advanced through the stricture, increasing the size of the dilator until the required calibre has been reached.
	A Phillips' dilator connected to a Phillips' whip
	Phillips' whips employed using the "faggot method". (In case you're wondering, it's from the French for a bundle of sticks!) Illustration taken from Koll's "Diseases of the Male Urethra", 1919

[Sign In]