Remarks and practical observations on venereal complaints and disorders of the urethra : with the composition of the bougies, or medicated candles, for the cure of these complaints. / By Mr. Goulard, surgeon of Montpellier.

  • Thomas Goulard
Date:
M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]
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Credit: Remarks and practical observations on venereal complaints and disorders of the urethra : with the composition of the bougies, or medicated candles, for the cure of these complaints. / By Mr. Goulard, surgeon of Montpellier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    drawn from the mafs of the blood, difchar ge them into the common relervoir of the urethra. fxs long as the feparation and the excretion of thele juices are performed according to the eftablifhed Jaw of the natural functions, . an obftrution of thefe glands is not to be dreaded ; but if, from any caufe what- ever, the juices fo far thicken in the lacuna, or other refervoirs of thefe glands, as not to pafs the narrow ducts or orifices of the ex- cretory vefiels; if, becoming. vifcous and clammy, they adhere to the fides of the re- fervoirs, and there accumulate; if the fe- cretion in thefe glands is toocopious, and the excretion is not proportioned to it; if an outward compreffion {tops the courfe of the fluids in the glands, and occafions a ftagna- tion ; if the lacunz or orifices of the excretory veflels of the glands are obftructed by a thick matter lodged in the urethra, and lining fome part of its fides; if heterogeneous, virulent arts of a thickening quality mix with the juices which are filtred through the glands ; if thefe glands become fchirrhous, which is no uncommon cafe in the proftate; if an ab{cefs, formed in this gland, caufes it to fwell towards its upper furface, in the niches of which the end of the urethra is funk; in all thefe and other like circumftances, glan- dulous obftruétions wil] more or lefs affect the excretory paflage of the urine. 31. It appears then certain, that the oon ; ‘ mae §
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