Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . proereative powers, doesnot extinguish venereal desire. Where the genital organsexist, but are malformed, or pathologically altered, theirvirility may be nullified. The most frequent malformation is in the urethra, whichsometimes opens in the pe- rinceum—the part markeda in the annexed cut; atothers, on the dorsum of thepenis, and not unfrequentlyunder its surface: so long,however,a
Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . proereative powers, doesnot extinguish venereal desire. Where the genital organsexist, but are malformed, or pathologically altered, theirvirility may be nullified. The most frequent malformation is in the urethra, whichsometimes opens in the pe- rinceum—the part markeda in the annexed cut; atothers, on the dorsum of thepenis, and not unfrequentlyunder its surface: so long,however,as the orifice opensin that portion of the peniswhich enters the vagina, sothat the emissio seminis may be therein deposited, impregna-tion may and will take place; and even in cases whereartificial means have been employed to convey the fluid. A contracted state of the prepuce, its adherence to theglans, or that condition of it termed phymosis, form im-pediments to the emission of the semen which can only beremoved by an operation; and if that be neglected, theevil continues through life. Among the diseases which occasion sterility in the male,those affecting the penis and those incident to the testicles. 178 A POPULAR TKEATrSE may be enumerated. With regard to the former, thereoften exists an excess or deficiency of muscular or nervousenergy, inducing priapism or permanent erection m someinstances, or paralysis or permanent flaccidity in priapism, the erection is so vigorous, and all the partsso distended, that the semen can not pass into the urethra;while in paralysis, from some inaptitude of nervous ormuscular powers of the genital organs, the corpora caver-nosa receive but a limited supply of blood, insufficient tocreate erection, or provoke a seminal discharge. Strictures of the urethra are among the barriers to sex-ual intercourse; but happily, only in extreme cases, wherethe urethra is all but closed, so as to oppose the passingof the finest bougie. The testi
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