On involuntary seminal discharges / by M. Lallemand ; Translated from the French by William Wood.
- Claude François Lallemand
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On involuntary seminal discharges / by M. Lallemand ; Translated from the French by William Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![drink, coition, &c ; which proves that the same causes act at the same time on the two orders of organs. The patients affected with diurnal pollutions, experience, in genera], very injurious effects from diuretics. Almost all those who have taken squills, nitrate of potash, digi¬ talis, &c., have observed, during their use, a remarkable increase of the seminal losses, and some, after having been cured for a greater or less length of time, have had relapses which could not be attributed to any other cause, and which were spontaneously dissipated as soon as the patients renounced the use of these medicines. It is indeed worthy of remark, also, that children, subject to in¬ continence of urine, are particularly exposed to nocturnal pollu¬ tions at the epoch of puberty ; and at a later period, to diurnal pollutions. In fine, I cannot terminate this parallel without remarking here, that the obliteration of the seminal ducts may be followed by the formation of spermatic fistuîæ, as strictures of the urethra give rise to urinary fistulas, (No. 7.) To sum up the whole, all the mucous surfaces of the genito¬ urinary organs have the greatest analogy and most intimate con¬ nections one with another. It is by them that the inflammation extends itself, step by step, to the secretory organs of the semen and urine. The portion of this membrane that lines the prostate being in intimate connection with that of the mucous follicles, ejaculatory ducts, and bladder, is that whose different states may have the greatest influence over all the others. The relations of this pros¬ tatic surface with the ejaculatory ducts, give to it particularly a great importance in the study of the different seminal losses ,* for every sensation felt at the orifice of an excretory duct is easily transmitted to the secretorv organ. This transmission takes place by the membrane that lines the excretory duct : it is not the result of a sympathetic connection, such as that which exists, for example, between the uterus and the mammae. The excretory duct, charged with this transmission, must neces¬ sarily itself partake of this influence: the visicuîæ séminales can¬ not, then, remain insensible to the impression that they transmit to the testicle ; which is important to be considered, seeing that these reservoirs are the agents of the spermatic emission, as the bladder is of the expulsion of the urine. We shall often have occasion to apply these data to the study and treatment of diurnal pollutions. In the mean time, it is well to remark, that the influence of the excretory ducts upon the se¬ cretory organs is not an isolated phenomenon, exclusively peculiar to the kidneys and testicles, but the result of a general law, applica¬ ble to all the glands. In fact, suction excites the secretion of milk, and changes its quality : the first drops that flow from the nipple are watery ; the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31880344_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
