Some abnormal conditions of the sexual and pelvic organs, which impair virility / by Edward H. Dixon.

  • Dixon, Edward H., 1808-1880.
Date:
[1861?]
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Credit: Some abnormal conditions of the sexual and pelvic organs, which impair virility / by Edward H. Dixon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ns, p, l!'.: The urethra is often sympathetically affected by disease of the rectum of so obscure :i nature, that the patient is ius of the complaint The sympathy which exists with hemor- rhoids (pi rally sufficiently marked, and whenever symptoms in the urethra can not be accounted for after an examination of thai pari, the state of the rectum should be carefully investigated. 1 have seen two very remark* able cases of disease attributed to the urethra resulting from :i small fl in the fold of the mucous membrane of the Intestine, which remained for a very time unrelieved by all the mean- adopted for their cure, until at last the fissures wi red, and complete relief obtained by division of the Bphinc- ter muscle and of the extremity of the rectum corresponding to the fissure. We have \ observed this origin of urethral irritability. In our own work on diseases of the sexual sysl im it is particularly noticed ; that work was published twenty-live years since, and scarcely a week lias elapsed without a renewed conviction of its truth. We have seen hundreds of eases in which par tial or complete impotence resulted from the nervous exhaustion produced by . and which gradually ceased <>n their cure. The urethra and bladder are almost always affected, and we often refuse < treat the patienl for suppo ed ol these important organs, well knowing that all his troubles originate from piles. .in Brodie remarks, page 810, in his Essays <>n Hemorrhoids: In- ternal pile patienl a great deal of inconvenience, besides which they are liable to irritate the neighboring parts, often producing the frequent to urinate, and at other times inducing spasm in the muscles that but- 1'11 the i ii- pari of the urethra, o as i cau e i omplete retention of urine. We have often been obliged to recommend laudanum injection mdition of thin--, and it has been necessary to repeal them for days and . the patient obtaining no permanent relief until the piles were cured, are often a great annoyance to the surgeon, because the patient, not- withstanding the possibility ol piles existing when they do not come down at 1 neither Bee nor feel them, will not believe in their exi tence insisting on the disease of the urethra only being attended to, when then- ,1 really no actual disease there. In diseases of the neck of the womb, the sympathy with the bowel is arcely ever find such a case without some morbid condition of the rectum. Hither piles or figure, to which women are particularly subject from constipation of the bowels, are often found associate.]. The bladder (pes in a chronic case of piles, and we never think of treating their , elilion separately. The surgeon who understands these sym- path.es will never he influenced by his patient's wishes to ne or the other. A\ e never attach the least importance to the opinions of our patients and always tell them so at the first interview; it saves a great amount of trouble.