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
Other diseases of the testicle will be treated upon under a specific
head.
To return to the treatment of Gonorrhœa:—On the abatement of all or
any of the enumerated symptoms, such as the diminution of the scalding
upon making water, the subsidence of chordee, the escape from, or
cure of, swelled testicle, phymosis and paraphymosis, warts, crabs,
excoriations, &c., the discharge may still continue, though thicker
in consistence, and deeper in color: and it is at this period, which
I will call chronic gonorrhœa, when all inflammatory symptoms have
left, that stimulants may be judiciously given; but it must be borne in
mind that relapses often occur from imprudence: and this chronic form
requires as much attention as the acute or early stage. (See _article
Gleet_.)
_Gleet._—Gleet is certainly, as its name implies, a discharge of
thin ichor from a sore. Patients usually understand, and medical men
usually allow, a gleet to be a discharge from the urethra, which has
existed some time, of a whitish color, unattended with pain, and that
is _not infectious_, by which is meant is incapable of producing
gonorrhœa. There are several kinds of morbid secretions, the successful
treatment of which depends upon a knowledge of their differences.
They may be divided into two principal orders—those secreted from the
mucous surface of the urethra or bladder, and those which proceed from
the various glands-leading into one or the other. Gleet is a term
popularly applied to both, but more strictly relates to that which
proceeds from the membrane lining the urinary canal. There is great
analogy in inflammatory affections between the mucous membrane of the
digestive and pulmonary, as well as urinary passages. In inflammatory
sore throat, the secretions assume various appearances; there is a
discharge of viscid mucus, of purulent matter, or of a thin watery
nature; these secretions are dependant upon the amount and duration
of the inflammation present. Exactly in like manner may be explained
those issuing from the urethra. They are consequently alike modified
by treatment, by diet, by rest, and aggravated by a departure from
constant care. It is the nature of all membranes, lining canals that
have external outlets, to attempt the reparative process by pouring
forth discharges, while those which line the structures that have
not, effect their cure by union with the opposite surface. It is an
admirable provision, else important passages might become closed, and
so put a stop to vital processes; and in the other case, accumulations
ensue that could not escape without occasioning serious mischief.
When, however, disease has existed a long time, the operation of
the two kinds of membranes is reversed. The serous,[2] through
inflammation, take on the character of abscess, dropsy, or other
secretions, and the mucous ulcerate or form adhesions, as evidenced
in stricture, or ulceration of the throat or urethra. Gleet may be
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