On the issue of subcutaneous use of pilocarpine in postoperative urinary retention

Postoperative, as well as postpartum ischuria is a very unpleasant complication, since all commonly used means are heat to the bladder, instillation of 10% boric glycerin into the bladder (Corbineau method), liq. kalii acetici per os, injections of 1.0-2.0 25% magnesiae sulfur, under the skin (Voytashevsky method), intravenous injections of 5.0-10.0 40% urotropin (according to V o g t'y) - often give refusal or induce urination after many hours and thus force the use of a catheter. As for catheterization, this method is recognized as fraught with complications and should be used, according to Dieterichs, only as an ultimum refugium.