The neuroses of the genito-urinary system in the male : with sterility and impotence / by R. Ultzmann ; tr. by Gardner W. Allen.

  • Robert Ultzmann
Date:
1890
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Credit: The neuroses of the genito-urinary system in the male : with sterility and impotence / by R. Ultzmann ; tr. by Gardner W. Allen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    uniformly cold. Here tlie metallic pressure acts in connection with the cold on the pros- tatic urethra. The temperature of the water varies. It is usual to begin with water that has stood in the air (16° to 18° RCaumur [68° to 72° Fahr.]), and gradually pass to fresh spring water. I have often observed that very cold water is not well borne, while water at the ordinary temperature works very well. A sitting lasts, at first, 5 minutes, increasing to 30 minutes. Should symptoms of catarrh of the bladder arise, the treatment must be suspended for a few days. Astringents also work very beneficially, in a liquid form as well as in the form of small ureth- ral suppositories, of the size of a barleycorn, in- troduced into the pars prostatica by means of Dittel's porte-remede. For using astringents in the liquid form, my short catheter-syringe may be employed to advantage, in the same manner as described on page 28. If a more powerful and lasting effect is to be produced on the mucous membrane, urethral suppositories and Dittel's porte-remede are used (Fig. 8). In the figure, A represents a catheter, with open end and a short curve, made of silver. This is closed by an obturator B, also made of silver. The obturator ends in an olive-shaped bulb, which just fits in the opening of the catheter C, and rounds off the end. At the distal end is