Sexual impotence / by Victor G. Vecki.

  • Victor G. Vecki von Gyurkovechky
Date:
1915
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Credit: Sexual impotence / by Victor G. Vecki. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing their own suffering and propagating infectious diseases. Gonorrhea also is in reality an obstacle to copula¬ tion ; but it is an obstacle about which people of the above description care very little. The disregard of this obstacle is of so much greater frequency as, un¬ fortunately, the sexual impulse is so much stronger during blennorrhea, particularly in its acute stage. This circumstance contributes greatly to the dissem¬ ination of the disease. In the chronic forms of gon¬ orrhea the state of irritability of the urethra, and therefore of the whole sexual apparatus, exists only slightly or not at all, but is sometimes roused to un¬ usually violent manifestations by the locally applied remedies, such as caustic injections, sounds, etc. Other obstacles set up by gonorrhea to the accom¬ plishment of copulation are the further complications and the higher degrees of development which the dis¬ ease often produces, and the extension of the blen- norrheic process, such as inflammation of the pros¬ tata, the vas deferens, the epididymis, and the ves- icula seminalis. Any one afflicted with such a dis¬ ease will, however, not readily yield to the tempta¬ tion of coition as long as the pathological process is in its acute stage. Virility is affected by the many diseases of the prostata. Until a few years ago the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the prostate were not considered of much importance. In 1888, when the first German edition of this work was published, it took quite a while to search for literature on the subject, and when
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