It's good to not have lived in a time when whalebone catheters were the norm.
. And we know for a fact that he suffered for many years from what he described as “suppression of urine” caused by a “stricture” or blockage in his urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body, during urination.
However, it was not very well-supported by the available evidence. In fact, the “whalebone catheter” claim stems entirely from one letter written by a friend of Morris, who does not explain the source of the purported knowledge. We could find no firsthand or family corroboration for the claim. In brief, it could well be true, but we can’t say for certain. Thus, our rating is “Unproven.”An 1865 map of Morrisania, in what is now the Bronx, New York.
On Nov. 6, 1816, at the age of 64, Morris died at Morrisonia, in the same room in which he was born. Aoffered no details on the manner of his passing, but described it as having followed a “short but distressing illness.” Some years ago, and in the interior of our State [New York], he performed the same operation with a flexible piece of hickory; the success on this occasion probably emboldened him to repeat the experiment, that is now to prove fatal…
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