A treatise on the nature and treatment of seminal diseases, impotency, and other kindred affections : with practical directions for the management and removal of the cause producing them, together with hints to young men . he patients faint-ing, I prefer to pass it while he is standing be-fore me. The moment the opening in the endof the instrument enters the bladder, it will beknown by the escape of urine. It must now bewithdrawn, just sufficiently far to stop any far-ther issuing of the water, which will place theslit directly over the mouth of the ejaculatoryducts. The rod holding the causti
A treatise on the nature and treatment of seminal diseases, impotency, and other kindred affections : with practical directions for the management and removal of the cause producing them, together with hints to young men . he patients faint-ing, I prefer to pass it while he is standing be-fore me. The moment the opening in the endof the instrument enters the bladder, it will beknown by the escape of urine. It must now bewithdrawn, just sufficiently far to stop any far-ther issuing of the water, which will place theslit directly over the mouth of the ejaculatoryducts. The rod holding the caustic must be atonce drawn forward, so that the opening in itscup will come exactly opposite the opening inthe catheter, which will bring the cauterizing in-strument directly in contact with the ducts andprostatic portion of the urethra. Some surgeonsprefer using the dry powdered nitrate of silver,while others use it in the solid state. I am governed entirely by the condition of theparts as to what material I use. I sometimes use the dry powder alone, butmost frequently mixed with simple cerate orgum-arabic. At others I use burnt alum, andsometimes sulphate of copper adulterated. SEMINAL DISEASES. 179 PLATE VI. FIG. Showing the Urethra and Bladder with the PorteCaustique introduced, as in the act of cauterizingthe Mouths of the Ejaculatory Ducts. 1. The Bladder. 2. The Penis. 3. The Porte Caustique. 4. The Caustic applied to the EjaculatoryDucts. 180 BOSTWICK ON CHAPTER VI. THIRD STAGE. Cases illustrative of the Third Stage, in which theDisease of the First and Second Stages has be-come aggravated to such a degree that it is irrem-ediable. CASE from Onanism. Miss R., aged seventeen, the daughter of ahighly respectable merchant of this city, was thesubject of this case. The unfortunate victim ofher own passions was so interesting, and the cir-cumstances of the case were so affecting, thatI can hardly bring myself to look upon it froma merely medical point of view. I was
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