Physician and Surgeon Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...examine the prepuce, which will often be found constricted and should be dilated or, what is better, the child should be circumcised. In 1843 of the 276 persons then admitted to the Asylum for the Insane at Utica, the different causes of derangement were given as follows: moral causes, 128; physical causes, 93; unascertained causes, 55. From that time to 1876 the number of cases attributed to moral causes has steadily diminished. Since 1876 the officers of the institution have ceased to attribute insanity to moral causes, as they believe that the mind can be deranged only through physical disease.--Dr. Edwards. Some homoeopaths, we are glad to see, are sensible enough to get disgusted with their brother practitioners for using syphilin, leucorhin, etc., for the cure of the diseases. The idea of giving a man internally some of the virus from a syphilitic sore in the hope of curing syphilis is certainly enough to disgust any sane man. Think of administering to a lady patient with leucorrhoea some fetid pus from the vagina of another woman. Surely, the days of dirty, dark superstition have not yet wholly passed. Dr. Skene has discovered two important glands in the female urethra. They are situated, one upon each side, near the floor of the urethra and extend from the meatus urinarius upwards for about three-fourths of an inch. The ducts are large enough to admit a No. 1 probe of the French scale. The physiology of these glands is not known; but they have been found constantly present and uniform in position and size in over one hundred subjects examined. These glands sometimes form the seat of obstinate inflammation, due in some cases at least to gonorrhoea. In such cases, Dr. Skene injects the ducts with tincture of iodine or passes a probe coated with nitrat...