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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    PEOPLE WIIO ARE BLOOD AND NERVE-STARVED — INFLUENCE OF EXHAUSTING DISCHARGES ON THE CONSTITUTION. Phtsk uxs, who are often highly educated and whose motives ire g I, bav< two sci ntific andclassioa] words with which they unconsciously befog the Intel- lects of their patients. These words are Anaemia and Neuralgia. The means bloodlessni as; the second, pain in a iin\c Neither an . for those whom they tell that they are anaemic, have often as much blood a healthy people, but it is poor and watery, and unfit to nourish the (issues of the body. Such people are often plump, !>ut they have always pale lips, cold hands and feet, and bluencss under the eyes. The second term, Neuralgia, i red enough, because neuralgia may exist; but pain in a nerve is only a symptom of ana'mia, which isthe disease that causes it. It ought to he called neorssmia, or nerve starved ; because the nerves, like the blood ressels, there is every reason to suppose, circulate a fluid, though we do not and probably Dever shall know its character. It is probably electricity, as that fluid will set the heart in action in a recently executed person, and actually continue for a I time the process of digestion, \\ hen applied to the great nerves that control that : they pass from the brain down each side of the neck. To pre a medicines tor either of these conditions as disease , with the new of curing them, without first ascertaining the causes that produced the blood- starved condition of the sufferer, is quite absurd; and yet the best of our med ieal men ai tly giving iron, quinine, strychnine, narcotics, and valerian- ate of ammonia, and a great variety of drugs, to cure anaemic girls, neura a, and feeble and exhausted men, with either no suspicion of their terribly unnatural condition and education, or at best afters I'w <jucs- . most carefully studied to avoid giving offense, by condemning some darling sin or unnatural habit, or some gross carelessness in clothing or food, continued through every day of his life by the thoughtless and ignorant patient. The man or woman i^ blood starved by some exhausting habits or disease, such .ual dissipation; piles of years and years' existence, accompanied with con- stant , of mucus or blood; smoking and chewing, producing partial paralysis of the nerves which control the blood-producing membrane of the blood-vessels, the ExoAxon n of physiology; leucorrhea or whites, repeated .triage either from exhaustion or abortionism ; fistula, fissure, dyspepsia, or ba ;i, cutting off the very source of the blood, the food ; sitting all day in close rooms and dancing half the night, and eating filthy confectionery in place of blood-producing food. All these powerful causes or anaBmia and neuralgia are continually overlooked, and the physician attacks these great sini against the laws of life with medicines! He gives tonics, when more air, food, and sleep are the only mi ring the lost power of producing blood, and continuing the full action of the nerve-power.