On the Treatment of Gonorrh a Without Specifics (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Crtatmmt 0f s0mt 0f % man We now arrive at the consideration of those symptoms which are more calculated to fetter the surgeon's hands. From their extreme importance I have been led to illustrate them by a few carefully selected cases, for which I solicit the reader's most earnest attention, as these rebellious forms of disease have cast so much doubt upon the powers of medicine over this complaint. Under this head I propose to place all those affections which directly or indirectly interfere with the exhibition of proper remedies. They consist of? i. Strong 'Tendency to Fainting.?2. Great Natural or Induced Weaknejs.?3. Difpofition to Inflammation of the Lacuna of the Urethra.?4. ExceJJive Senfitivenefs of this Canal.?5. Strong Difpofition to Stritture.?6. Extreme Irritability of the Bladder.?7. Excejfive Irritability of the Rectum.? 8. Perineal Abfcejs?9. Inflammation of the Pr oft ate.?10. Gonorrhcsal Rheumatifm?n. Gonorrhoeal Ophthalmia 12- Bleeding from the Urethra. 1. FAINTING from the use of injections.?In speaking of a strong tendency to faint from the use of injections, I allude, not to the mere sense of faintness felt on passing the tube of the syringe down the urethra for the first time, as that is quite a common affair, but to that form where the disposition is so strong and recurs so constantly as to constitute an idiosyncrasy. I have seen it in very strong men. An acrobat who had contracted a discharge came under my care.He was a healthy, temperate man, a solid mass of bone and muscle. His energetic method of gaining his livelihood was practised " sub Jove," and had developed his powerful frame to the highest pitch of health and strength it was capable of Yet this man fainted so suddenly on my attempting to insert a short syringe into the urethra...