Spermatorrhoea : its causes, symptoms, results and treatment / by Roberts Bartholow.

  • Roberts Bartholow
Date:
1879
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    cure the patient, but the application of the caustic is frequently followed by most serious consequences.* In all cases it produces great irritation, frequently strangury and bloody urine, and sometimes severe urethritis and cys- titis. Too long contact of the caustic may in- duce induration and organic stricture, a very serious complication of the case. Notwith- standing these sometimes unfortunate results, some surgeons adhere to it, and a few claim all that Ducanip, or Amussat, or Hunter, or Home, did in former times. Mr. Acton, for instance, is a zealous partisan of the porte caustique, contending [p. 225] that, as far as his own ex- perience is concerned, it fully bears out the statement of Lallemand as to the infrequency of any ill consequences arising from its use. We should not, therefore, reject this practice of cauterization entirely. Under what circum- stances may we resort to it? There appear to be two classes of cases in which it is indicated: 1st. Those in which chronic inflammatory * Thompson, On Enlarged Prostate : Its Pathology and Treatment, etc. Op. cit.