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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    Despite the brief lapse of time since the publica¬ tion of the fourth edition of this book, additions and a few modifications in this new edition were impera¬ tive. New and better instruments have made the deep urethra more accessible to a rational local treat¬ ment, but likewise have offered suggestions for varied mutilations. In their time the ovaries were the object of the “furor operandi,” and it appears now as if the colliculus seminalis and the seminal vesicles must be substituted for them, and must be sacrificed to demonstrate brilliant technic. Proceeding from one extreme to another, one en¬ counters the beseeching demands of psychotherapy. That psychotherapy is new is not true, and that it is very often the true treatment is not new. Even psychotherapy for sexual neurasthenic troubles is nothing new. The author advocated it in the first edition of this book (published in 1888), when urology was in its toddling clothes, and at a time when the subject of sexual neurasthenia was strictly tabooed in polite medical society. Even a superficial study of the history of medi¬ cine will convince any one that psychotherapy was
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