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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    for the alkaline semen, the secretion of the ac- cessory urethral glands is discharged into the canal before the ejacnlatio 8eminis, and, by virtue of its thick, viscid consistence, forms a coating on the walls of the urethra. This secre- tion, as is well known, appears during erection of the penis as a clear, transparent drop at the meatus. The treatment of male sterility is rarely ac- companied with favorable result. If the semen is mixed with blood or pus, disease of the caput gallinaginis or of the prostatic portion of the urethra is usually involved. In most cases of this sort the blood and pus become mixed with the semen only at the moment of ejaculation. Here cauterization of the pars prostatica ureth- rse almost always perfectly serves the purpose. I use for this purpose a 5 per cent, solution of nitrate of silver and apply it by means of my urethral dropper. Of this solution I generally inject an amount indicated by from 3 to 5 marks of the scale on the piston of the small syringe [6 to 10 minims] (Fig. 11). Already, after 3 or 4 cauterizations, which are done at intervals of 3 days, it becomes evident that the former bloody semen has regained its normal condition. The cauterization may be equally well carried out with urethral sup- positories of nitrate of silver, applied through Dittel's porte-remede. If the blood and pus, pa