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

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    Vesicil.t, Semi- NALES. > Vesiculitis . . . Excessive secretion; with inspissntion. Prostate Gland. Prostatitis \ Excessive secretion; increased amount ( of salts. Ukethka . . . Urethritis . . . Excessive secretion of mucus. SPERMATORRHOEA ASTHENICA. [Spermatorrhea Atoxica—Mason Good.] structure. function. Testes . . Atrophy J Impotence; -watery secretion; absence F 9 ' i of spermatozoa. Ykpioul.-e Semi- ) r . ..... „, ,. > Irritability . . . Watery secretion. HALES .... J J Prostate Gland . Chronic Irritation J ^clS.^1^011 ^ SaltS' ^^ Urethra . . . Ulceration . . . Purulent discharge. It cannot be admitted -as a necessary law of healthy individual existence, that the organs of generation should be brought into ex- ercise. The functions of the body may be carried on perfectly well ■without their employment. On the other hand,' taking society as at present constituted, and considering the large amount of nourish- ment usually taken into the system, it must be allowed that the moderate use of the generative organs is perfectly consistent with the highest degree of health. By moderate use of this function, and by the healthful activity which accompanies its exercise, the general system is, to a certain extent, relieved and lightened, and the tone both of mind and body improved. The too frequently re- peated exercise of this function, on the other hand, is apt to occa- sion an unhealthy state of excitement of the organs, which is prone to terminate in disease. After a time the morbid excitement, as- suming by continuance a chronic character, takes on an action inde- pendent of its cause, progresses gradually, and occasions a constant secretion of seminal fluid. The exhaustion proceeding from so ab- normal and constant a drain upon the powers of the constitution, quickly undermines the most vigorous strength, and establishes a state of serious disease. The secretion of the seminal fluid, destined for the important purpose of preserving the species, demands for its perfection, if not the highest, at least a high standard of vital energy. Its excessive loss, for the same reason, occasions an immediate and destructive impression on the health. This symptom, therefore, as the most obvious, and apparently the most dangerous, will naturally attract the attention of the medical practitioner, and probably induce him to direct the entire of his efforts to accomplish its removal. Lallemand based his system of classification on the character of the emissions, dividing them into nocturnal and diurnal. A careful consideration of the importance of the symptoms he has attached to each division, shows that the idea these terms convey does not clearly define his meanino-. His arrangement resolves itself more into a question of