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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    With the exception of the not very frequent cases of aseptic prostatitis, the consequence of habitually interrupted coitus or masturbation, prostatitis is always caused by propagation of an inflammation in the urethra. When we ask how does this involvement happen and what is the immediate agent causing it, how does this agent act and behave? we reach the biggest snag of the wThole prostatic question. No doubt the gland is being invaded by a germ. In acute gonorrhea we have the wily gonococcus, and no mat¬ ter what Albaran may say, it must be the gonococcus that invades the prostatic gland. What happens to the microogranism once located in the gland is at present hard to say. Some think the gonococcus may persist for many years imbedded somewhere in the prostate, and others are of the opinion that the gonococcus makes room for other forms of bacteria. The question is not so simple as some of our fellow- workers think. The process cannot be tabulated so nicely as Notthaft has done, and I dare to say that the study of this phase of our subject is far from being clear. The task to investigate and to systematize the bacterial geneology of the prostate may seem very easy, is extremely attractive, but no doubt is worthy of a scientific Sisyphus. More cases one examines in every direction, more smears one inspects under the microscope, more cul¬ tures one makes, more perplexing problems one meets. Dr. Philip Rahtjen of San Francisco, the well known biologist, was very enthusiastic when I proposed to him that we should go to work and .find
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