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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    \\, bare j i i be n c m ilied by ■ married man <>f thirl who irefully examined by two medical menof this cit; rued and justlv celebrated proles or, and treated bj m lor a long time for threat and by both now pronounced to bare neural- gia of the spina] column, near il lower part This, as 1 upon him instantly il be i do* i ccei dingly thin ; baa a deep blue tint under i rued He baa had very large protruding piles and pro of blood daily for y< mokes tobai very great for years; 1-- has had no children. Win man i from quinine, which the professor ha ' in full doses, till it- characti mptom, ringing in ih Nothi Id him, could cure him, but the removal of hi :,,„l , dnuance of his tobacco and oth i a full chance now, or sumo other disease, probablj of tl head, will carry him off. In woman, the existence of piles producea a constant irritation oftl which govern the bl 1 \ ' ,'1'1 ,,,w:ml ' '•' ovaria dor all I oswithin the pelvis, oi - of the body, d> their m, tl,.- lower part of the spinal column;) the monthl; Cha to discharges of blood; the greal mucous membrane I ia exhausted and bl Hess, secretions profusely mucous; the woman ha ,„.„„.,„ leucorrhea or whites, and almosl always prolapsus ol the womb; become8 anaemic or blood-starved, and has often neural rally in the bead and face, often in the back and thighs; she la short-breathed, pale, easily exhausted on standing or going up-staii ally headache; if si nceive, she has no strength to retain te Lost certain to mUc*rry; reduplicating her misery al «1 of hia ^fortune, and, ftnally, either is incapacitated to bear offspring al all, or ducedinher, »rs of producing healthy hi 1, that her infan . sure to ;1, of dropsy of the head in t ething, or wasting consumption ol its bowels, called IJLu. or summer diarrhea ; for all these are diseases produce 1 by an»m» ot!u,r the infents are also blood-starved. ln ,iU;Ull,.ll oases of these respective diseases-namely, piles, leucorrhe^ anditTu^uTattendant, prolapsus of the womb, and in v- encldoTgationofAescrotum-allth parts fall downwa, relax. Srf^eVts which contain and support them; and as the nervee which : tl ■ u all, come from the lower part of the spinal column, and «• ol 11 • „,i, t, reach their respective destinations in thewomb, :,> '' • ' n Kin-tot ;l UlL> rily stretched, and ^fD^ ^ ^ .Weariness in the loins is an blood vessels which nourish the* . i •• ,, .,,.1-mt On all tin • ■ and ,fl DOt ' • r can OU