A practical treatise on urinary and renal diseases : including urinary deposits . f urine. It is only when ulcerated that their elementsescape with the urine ; before this takes place they may, how-ever, give rise to copious and oft-repeated haemorrhage. VIII.— SPERMATOZOA IN HEINE—SPEEMATOEEHCEA. The admixture of semen with the urine gives rise to amucous-looking deposit. When in large quantity, white albu-minous flakes and masses are seen ; these exhibit a viscid con-sistence when taken up with the pipette. The microscopereveals the existence of spermatic filaments, consisting () of a
A practical treatise on urinary and renal diseases : including urinary deposits . f urine. It is only when ulcerated that their elementsescape with the urine ; before this takes place they may, how-ever, give rise to copious and oft-repeated haemorrhage. VIII.— SPERMATOZOA IN HEINE—SPEEMATOEEHCEA. The admixture of semen with the urine gives rise to amucous-looking deposit. When in large quantity, white albu-minous flakes and masses are seen ; these exhibit a viscid con-sistence when taken up with the pipette. The microscopereveals the existence of spermatic filaments, consisting () of a minute oval head, not more than ^?$ of an inch inbreadth, and a long whip-like tail of extreme delicacy. Thelength of the entire filament is -^^ of an inch. When freshly shed, and still living, they exhibit active eel- 156 ORGANIC DEPOSITS. like movements, strongly suggestive of volition ; * but as seenin urine they are always motionless. They offer considerableresistance to disintegration, and may sometimes be recognisedin decomposed urine which has been kept for Fig. 35. Spermatozoa. A certain quantity of seminal fluid necessarily finds its wayinto the urine of both sexes after coitus ; also into the urineof men after involuntary nocturnal emissions. Involuntary nocturnal emissions occurring occasionally inthe young and continent, are not to be regarded as within thelimits of disease ; but when they take place two or three timesweekly or oftener, or when the acts of defecation and mictu-rition are frequently followed by a glairy discharge, a diseasedstate must be acknowledged to exist; and one also, as expe-rience proves, exceedingly difficult to deal with. Whether itbe that the mental phenomena observed in these cases are alto-gether secondary to the genital defect may well be questioned;but it is an important—indeed the important—fact in relationto involuntary seminal discharges, that they are associatedwith a deplorable state of mind. Much of this is no dou
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