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 . ination, as instanced on awaking in the morn-ing—the cause is most probably a distended bladder; thephenomena may be a sympathetic irritability of the mus-cles of the perinceum, especially the erectores ; there is ageneral pelvic disturbance, the nervous excitement is in-creased, and the rush of blood (obedient to that excite-ment) is sent to the penis : such, I believe, is the symp
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 . ination, as instanced on awaking in the morn-ing—the cause is most probably a distended bladder; thephenomena may be a sympathetic irritability of the mus-cles of the perinceum, especially the erectores ; there is ageneral pelvic disturbance, the nervous excitement is in-creased, and the rush of blood (obedient to that excite-ment) is sent to the penis : such, I believe, is the sympathybetween all these structures. The will exercises the same,and the results of the imagination do not materially differ ;consequently, where the mind fails in producing these ef-fects, local excitants may be found to supply its officehence the usefulness of art in combating the eccentricitiesof nature. The mere handling of the testicles kindks de-sire, and in like manner, stirnulatives applied over thescrotum generate amative heat. A curve of the penis is sometimes an obstruction to con-nubial intercourse; this arises from adhesion or oblitera-tion of the cells of the Corpora Cavernosa on one side only,. ON VENEREAL DISEASES. 177 preventing the uniform flow of blood into those structures,and consequently the equal distention of the penis. Thec i. /e is of coarse laterally, and occasions in the act of coi-lin to both parties, or the power of penetration iscieat. Occasionally this malformation is only tem-porary, and consequently remediable. Frcmek gives an instance in which so considerable a por-tion of the penis had been carried away by a musket-shot,rhen the wound healed, the organ remained curved,and yet proved adequate to the performance of its functions. An opinion formerly prevailed, that the existence of thetestes was unnecessary for effective copulation ; but thatis no longer a point of dispute: their absence, whethernatural or artificial, invariably rendering the in
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