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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    mand’s method does good service in pollutions, sper¬ matorrhea, or impotence caused by changes in cer¬ tain portions of the urethra. The endoscope enables us now to obtain positive knowledge about this cause. Swinburn’s, Goldschmidt’s, Wossidlo’s, Buerger’s, MacGowan’s, and McCarthy’s urethroscopes are most valuable additions to our armamentarium. They enable us to inspect the deep urethra, the colliculus seminalis and the trigonum, and see struc¬ tures in vivo which we were, until a few years ago, able to see only in anatomical dissections and prep¬ arations. Special care must be taken in cauterizing, and it should be undertaken only by medical men who are perfectly familiar with the handling of the endo¬ scope, and by them only under the control of this instrument. Lallemand did the best that could be done with the knowledge and means at his hands; now it would be surely criminal to poke blindly into the compli¬ cated structures of the male urethra, and for a phy¬ sician to cauterize the deep urethra without seeing exactly what is being done would be as if one were arresting the bleeding of an amputation wound with the actual cautery. We hope, at least, that now when the ingeniousness of Goldschmidt, Wossidlo, Buerger, Oudin, D’Arsonval and others have placed into our hands the endo-urethral knife and various endo- urethral electrodes, no real physician should be fool¬ ish enough to use antiquated appliances to slash and burn his fellowman’s urethra. Some ultra-modern urologists, however, go a little
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