SpermatorrhœaW. Wood, 1879 - 128 páginas |
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accompanied anaphrodisiac bladder bromide of potassium canula catheter cause cerebral form circumcision coitus condition constipation derangement disease disorders diurnal pollutions ducts edition effects ejaculatory emission epilepsy erection ergot excesses in venery exist feeble fluid frequent involuntary losses genital form genital organs glans habit Heckford importance increased inferior extremities injected insanity involuntary seminal losses irritation Lallemand lesions locomotor ataxia malady masturbation matorrhoea medulla oblongata ment mental mucous nerve nervous system nitrate of silver nocturnal observed occur onanism orgasm pain paraplegia pathological patient penis porte caustique practice prepuce produced prostatic prostatic portion puberty rectum reflex excitability reflex faculty remedies result rhoea satyriasis semen seminal weakness sensation sexual apparatus sexual desire sexual organs sper spermatic cord spermatic plexus spermatorrhoea spermatozoa spinal cord stillicidium structural alterations strychnia tabes dorsalis Tinct tion torrhoea treatment true spermatorrhoea ulceration urethra urine varicocele venereal orgasm vesiculæ seminales vice of masturbation
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Página 12 - You may teach positively that masturbation does neither more nor less harm than sexual intercourse practiced with the same frequency in the same conditions of general health and age and circumstance. Prac"ticed frequently by the very young, that is at any time before or at the beginning of puberty, masturbation is very likely to produce exhaustion, effeminacy, over-sensitiveness and nervousness...
Página 26 - It seems a well-ascertained fact that the nervous tissue, both in the centres and in the peripheral extensions, becomes more excitable and mobile in proportion as its power becomes weaker. The motor nerve is more readily thrown into action, though the impulse it communicates is weak and cannot be long sustained. The sensory nerve is alive to the least impression, and becomes in certain cases gifted with almost preternatural acuteness. The brain is highly impressible, but incapable of any continuous...
Página 12 - Prac"ticed frequently by the very young, that is at any time before or at the beginning of puberty, masturbation is very likely to produce exhaustion, effeminacy, over-sensitiveness and nervousness ; just as equally frequent copulation at the same age would probably produce them.
Página 24 - Anatomically regarded, it is very remarkable how closely the different nervous centres, or parts of a nervous centre, are connected by commissural fibres ; and from a pathological point of view, the same connection is often very manifest. The general exhaustion induced by excess in venery, the...
Página 59 - Temple of Health ' was a celestial bed, provided with costly draperies, and standing on glass legs. Married couples who slept on this couch were sure of being blessed with a beautiful progeny. For its use, one hundred pounds per night were demanded, and numerous persons of rank were foolish enough to comply with the terms.
Página 39 - In most of these cases the fluid is either the liquor prostaticus or a secretion from the vesiculae seminales. The microscope affords the only mode of determining that the fluid is seminal. Were this mode of examination generally adopted, cases of spermatorrhea would be extremely rare.
Página 31 - With the progress of the habit the penis becomes relaxed, the erections feeble: the corpora cavernosa either atrophy, or their vessels lose . their tonicity, whereby an apparent diminution in bulk takes place; the corpus spongiosum and the glans also shrink, so that the prepuce appears unnaturally elongated. The testes may increase in size, become tender and " irritable," or they may undergo a certain degree of atrophy ; the latter is the more usual result.
Página 48 - The records of this institution show five hundred and twenty-one cases admitted directly attributable to this vice, and I am well convinced that the number is greatly understated. I shrink from these remarks and would gladly ' avoid a word on such a subject, did I not consider it in the line of my duty. The evils of this practice are well portrayed in language adapted to the general reader, in a short treatise published in 1861, by Dr. Wm. S.
Página 101 - It will be effectual in the foregoing conditions, in proportion to the degree in which structural lesions are absent, or, in other words, in proportion to the degree in which these morbid states are functional rather than organic.