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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    2. The Cold Sound or Psychrophor (see page 98). The sound having been passed into the bladder with the patient in the horizontal posi- tion, the air is exhausted from the free end of the outflow tube with a hand syringe, and the water begins to flow through the cold sound by siphon action. The water flows through one half of the sound to the vesical end, and from thence back through the other half into the empty ves- sel. Here the metallic pressure and the temper- ature of the water circulating through the sound act together on the prostate. Usually the water is used as it is taken from the water-main, that is, at a temperature of from 9° to 10° Reaumur [52° to 54° Fahr.]. If patients are very sensitive to this temperature water of from 14° to 16° Re- aumur [63° to 68° Fahr.] may be used. Not only cold but heat sometimes works remarkably well. In cases where cold water has no effect, warm water of 30° Reaumur [100° Fahr.] and over may be allowed to circulate through the sound. It may be observed in certain cases that heat excites erections more quickly and powerfully than cold. Irritation by means of heat exerted on the prostate through the cold sound is one of the best means of exciting erec- tions. 3. The treatment of the pars prostatica ure- thras by means of astringents. Just as heat and mechanical irritants, astringents also act on the