A practical treatise on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of spermatorrhoea / by M. Lallemand ; translated and edited by Henry J. McDougall.

  • Claude François Lallemand
Date:
1858
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    tend by degrees to put all doubt on the subject out of the question, and clear up all our present difficulties in respect of this interesting physiological inquiry. CHAPTER III. PATHOLOGY OF SPERMATORRHEA. The term spermatorrhoea means simply an involuntary discharge of seminal fluid. The disease intended to be represented is more than this, since it is characterized by a series of consecutive symp- toms, more or less important, developed in the constitution of the sufferer, and of which an involuntary discharge of seminal fluid is only one, but at the same time the chief of these symptoms. It is seldom that the malady depends merely on the derangement of a single organ; the different portions of the genital apparatus parti- cipate in a general irritation, and constitute essentially the disease. In a state of health the genital organs have a combined dependence on each other, and when diseased, they are capable of exercising a separate influence in the aggravation of particular symptoms. An observation of the results of disease on separate parts of the genital system leads me to conclude that the structure and function of each organ may be affected independently of the rest. When a single organ alone is deranged, the disease presents the simplest form of spermatorrhoea. With a complication of independent actions, it is not surprising that symptoms which arise apparently from the same cause should assume opposite forms in certain cases. Many interesting and re- markable circumstances of this kind have occurred to me in prac- tice, and the necessity for determining their relative influence, and satisfactorily referring them to their proper origin, led me in the first place to contrive some mode of classification. With this in- tention, I constructed the following table, which has proved of es- sential service to me in enabling me to refer to their proper source many of the peculiar symptoms of spermatorrhoea. A primary division of the disease may be made into the two forms of Tonic and Atonic, under the designation of Spermator- rhea Sthenica, and Spermatorrhoea Asthenica. Following the arrangement of the table, it will be seen that the sthenic and asthe- nic condition of the same organ occasions in it different modifica- tions of the disease, in proportion as the symptoms that result arc varied by the peculiar influence of structure and function. spermatorrhea sthenica. [Spekmatokruce.v Entonica—Mason Good.] STRUCTURE. FUNCTION. m * ,... ( Excessive secretion; relative deficiency Testes .... Orchitis . . . . < » . ( of spermatozoa.