Vicious circles in disease / by Jamieson B. Hurry.

  • Jamieson Boyd Hurry
Date:
1913
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    happen with a phimotic prepuce. The phimosis causes retention ; the retention sets up balano- posthitis and aggravates the phimosis. Thus Corner writes : “ The greater the irritation of the glands by decomposing secretion, the greater the amount of secretion they produce. In this way a Vicious Circle is established. 1 In females a similar condition results if the smegma about the clitoris and vulvar folds is not frequently re¬ moved. Decomposition, vulvitis or balanitis clitoridis lead to increased secretion and accumulation. (d)—-THE SWEAT GLANDS Hyperhidrosis. General hyperhidrosis, when associated with the prostration of serious disease, is frequently the result of debility as well as the cause of its aggravation : “ The colliquative sweats of convalescence are nothing more than the expression of a state of profound weakness. . . . The convalescent perspires because he is weak, and this perspiration aggravates his weakness. This is a Vicious Circle from which he must escape without delay. 2 Some stout persons, in whom the thick layer of fat diminishes the amount of heat given off by radiation and conduction, are much troubled by abundant perspirations. These make the sufferer lazy, and thus tend to increased obesity and per¬ spiration. 3 Hyperhidrosis of the axillary regions frequently causes women to wear impervious shields, 1 Male Diseases in General Practice, p. 398. 2 Bouveret, Les Sueurs Morbides, p. 121. s Krehl, Clinical Pathology, tr. by Hewlett, p. 342.