The science of life, or, Self-preservation : a medical treatise on nervous and physical debility, spermatorrhœa, impotence, and sterility, with practical observations on the treatment of diseases of the generative organs / by Albert H. Hayes.
- Hayes, Albert H. (Albert Hamilton)
- Date:
- [1868], ©1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The science of life, or, Self-preservation : a medical treatise on nervous and physical debility, spermatorrhœa, impotence, and sterility, with practical observations on the treatment of diseases of the generative organs / by Albert H. Hayes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Armed clap can be suddenly arrested in its career, and the attempt, if made, is frequentJy productive of evi] results. The tre.'itment will necessarily be motUlied by the date, the intensity of the disease, and the consUtu- tional peculiarities of the subject; and hence, though most of the remedies be well known, yet, in Iheir ai>- plication they requh-e that discrimination which rend- ers it necessarily unwise and unsafe that a nvxn should venture to treat his own case; and the records of oui practice attest much serious mischief that has arisen in Uiis way. For a period of at least one week, the treat- ment should be strictly palliative; the diet shotdd be moderately reduced, the bowels relaxed, (but not vio- lently irritated by dr;istic purgatives,) the local inflam- mation mitigated by frequent fomentations and rest The smarting which occurs in evacuating the bladder arises not from any change in the chemical constituents of the mine, but from tlie circumstance of its having to pass over an inflamed and higliiy sensitive sm-face; so when the eye is inflamed, light, which constitutes its nat- ural stimulus, becomes intolerable. This smarting may be much alleviated by taking about tliirty drops of the solution of potassa three times a day, with sixty drops of the tincture of the herb Fedoni, (Avhicb neutralizes the acid the urine naturally contains,) combined with « few di'ops of the tincture of Opium, besides which nucilaginons and diluent di-inks certainly render the arine less stimulating. The activity of the dise:ise being ixhausted, and the acute stage of uiflammatory excite- <ient subsiding, under judicious management the im- jirovement will be indicated by a diminution of ])ain hi iiakiug water, and in the quantity of the discharge,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20407385_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
