Porneiopathology: A Popular Treatise on Venereal and Other Diseases of the Male and Female Genital System; With Remarks on Impotence, Onanism, Sterility, Piles, and Gravel, and Prescriptions for Their Treatment — John Shaqi
Porneiopathology: A Popular Treatise on Venereal and Other Diseases of the Male and Female Genital System; With Remarks on Impotence, Onanism, Sterility, Piles, and Gravel, and Prescriptions for Their TreatmentCulverwell, Robert James
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Porneiopathology: A Popular Treatise on Venereal and Other Diseases of the Male and Female Genital System; With Remarks on Impotence, Onanism, Sterility, Piles, and Gravel, and Prescriptions for Their Treatment
Culverwell, Robert James
Genitourinary organs -- Diseases; Sexual health; Sexually transmitted diseases
I omitted to mention, in the description of the symptoms of gonorrhœa,
that occasionally, in very severe cases, a tumor forms in the perinœum,
which, if neglected, proceeds to suppuration, and establishes a
fistulous communication with the urethra. On the instant of such a
swelling appearing, leeches, fomentations, and poultices, should be
applied with a view to disperse it; but the management of such a case
had better be intrusted to the surgeon.
Excoriation of the membrane of the glans or prepuce requires for
its treatment frequent ablution with warm water until the redness
and discharge somewhat diminish, when Form 16 may be resorted to,
and applied, if practicable, by a moistened layer of lint; but if
accompanied by phymosis, the syringe must be used.
Warts, if not large, are easily removed, by brushing them with the
muriated tincture of iron, or the application of a lotion of lunar
caustic (Form 17).
Where they are numerous and large, and resist the remedies just
recommended, the nitric acid is an excellent escharotic; it gives
little or no pain, and is rarely productive of inflammation. The glans,
if not naturally denuded (in which instance, by the way, warts seldom
accrue), should be kept so for a time; and the nitric acid, after a
few moments, washed off with cold water. Notwithstanding, excision is
sometimes necessary to their complete removal.
When the organs of generation are infested by pediculi, or crab-lice,
the most efficacious and agreeable remedy is the sulphur-bath; one bath
generally effecting an extinction of every one of them, even though
they be all over the body.
Some recommend shaving the hair off the pubis, the locality in which
the vermin are most usually engendered, and applying blue ointment
or the black wash. Such a practice is seldom ineffectual, but the
irritation attendant upon the reproduction of hair is absolutely
intolerable. The hair need not be removed, as the above remedies will
be all-sufficient without it. Rubbing the parts well with strong
mercurial (or blue) ointment, or the black wash (Form 18), or even
powdering them with calomel, will at once destroy the insects, and
thereby remove the itching.
Swelled testicle, or _hernia humoralis_, more especially that
proceeding from gonorrhœal irritation, is ushered in and discovered
in the following manner: The patient, on some sudden movement of the
body, experiences a pain, darting from one of the _testes_ (both being
rarely affected at the same time) to the loins—the left testicle is
the one generally attacked. On examination, he finds that the testicle
is rather swollen and full, and very painful on being handled; the
swelling quickly increases and becomes hard, which hardness extends to
the spermatic chord, presenting the feel of a rope, passing from the
scrotum to the groin.
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