On the functional diseases of the renal, urinary and reproductive organsLindsay & Blakiston, 1872 - 300 pages |
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absorption affection animalcules believe bladder blood body bowels calculi catheter cause coitus condition consequently cord Cowper's glands deferens diminished discharge disease ejaculated enlargement enuresis epididymis epilepsy erection examination excessive excitement exist extent female frequently function gland glans gonorrhoea inflammation influence injected insanity involuntary seminal emission irritation kidney Lancet likewise masturbation membrane ment mental micturition mucous muscles muscular fibres nature nerves nervous nocturnal nocturnal emissions normal observed obstruction occasion occur opinion organs pain paralysis passage passed pathological patient penis physiological portion prepuce present prostate psychical quacks quantity rectum referred reflex remarks remedy removed retention of urine secretion semen seminal fluid sexual congress sion spasm spermatic incontinence spermatorrhoea spermatozoa sphincter spinal sterility strangury stricture suppression sympathetic symptoms testicles tion tissue treatment tumor urea ureter urethra uric acid urine uterus variety vas deferens vasa deferentia vesical vesiculæ seminales viscus zoosperms
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Page v - We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
Page 139 - English scale, and ia conical, its point being two millimetres in diameter, about equal to No. 1 of the same scale. A groove on its convex side extends a distance of four inches, and is bridged over in its last twelfth of an inch, so as to form a canal for the reception of a delicate whalebone guide. The catheter eye is on the concave side of the instrument, about three-fourths of an inch from its point, and is kept closed by a well fitted stylet.
Page 228 - The prostate is essentially a muscular body, consisting of circular or orbicular involuntary fibres, with one large central hole for the passage of the urethra...
Page 187 - ... all the stream. Cleanly people often, when sound asleep, believing that they are lifting their dress beside a urinal or the public vessels, pour forth the filtered liquid of their whole body, and the Babylonian coverlets of surpassing brilliancy are drenched. Then too those, into the boiling currents of whose age seed is for the first time passing, when the ripe fulness of days has produced it in their limbs, idols encounter from without from what body soever, harbingers of a glorious face and...
Page 129 - ... drawn back, in consequence of the membrane of the posterior part of the bladder being put on the stretch, the valve is opened, so that a certain quantity of water is allowed to escape, but the bladder is not completely emptied.
Page 209 - ... out and red as in a case of severe granular urethritis; upon touching the orifice of the urethra he was slightly convulsed, and had a regular orgasm. This was repeated a number of times, and always with the same result. The nurse stated that this was his condition most of the time, and that he frequently awoke in the night crying because "his pee-pee hurt him...
Page 273 - Stop, traveller, and wondering know, here buried lie the remains of Thomas, son of Thomas and Margaret Hall, who, not one year old, had the signs of manhood; not three, was almost four feet high; endued with uncommon strength, a just proportion of parts, and a stupendous voice; before six he died, as it were, of an advanced age. He was born at this village, October 31, 1741, and in the same departed this life, Sept. 3, 1747.
Page 163 - A vigorous naturalist, sixty years of age, a married man, and father of a large family, and accustomed to the use of the microscope, whom I had interested in this question, examined with me for some time continuously his own semen after coitus. Here we found the greatest variations, which were accurately noted by both of us together. After coitus on the third day, reckoning from the last performance of the act, there was a large number of very small spermatozoa : after renewed coitus on the fourth...
Page 221 - In circumstances of great pain, you may inject anodynes into the bladder if you please ; but they are of little value. And you need not be afraid of the quantity ; for the mucous membrane of the bladder appears to have no absorbing power...
Page 172 - ... it is neutral. 2. Only when it has quitted the passages and arrived in the urethra does it acquire its white color and its peculiar faint smell. 3. During its passage through the prostatic portion of the urethra, the prostate empties out its fluid, colors the semen white, and confers upon...