A non-surgical treatise on diseases of the prostate gland and adnexa . vices, like excessive inter-course or masturbation, resulting in lesions of the prostate,or some form of nervous disease. Just as mental disturbances influence sexual conditions,so in like manner do diseases of the prostate gland causesuch various forms of mental disorders as inactivity, de-pression and numerous other neurotic aberrations. I have especially noticed that men between the ages offorty and seventy, suffering from chronic prostatitis losethe keen mental activity they formerly possessed. Theirperceptive and reaso
A non-surgical treatise on diseases of the prostate gland and adnexa . vices, like excessive inter-course or masturbation, resulting in lesions of the prostate,or some form of nervous disease. Just as mental disturbances influence sexual conditions,so in like manner do diseases of the prostate gland causesuch various forms of mental disorders as inactivity, de-pression and numerous other neurotic aberrations. I have especially noticed that men between the ages offorty and seventy, suffering from chronic prostatitis losethe keen mental activity they formerly possessed. Theirperceptive and reasoning faculties become sluggish andinactive. Owing to the contiguous relations, the direct source of 20 PROSTATE GLAND AND ADNEXA. blood supply, and the intimate connection of the nerves ofthe prostate, bladder, seminal vesicles and rectum, diseaseof the prostate cannot exist any great length of time with-out causing either functional disturbance or organic dis-ease of the others. Besides, inflammatory disease of theprostate often arises from chronic rectal Engorgement of Portal Veins and Pampiniform Plexus.(Semi-diaoramatic.) A. Aff^endix lermiformis. B. Urinary Bladder. C. Colon-Ascending. C^. Coloji—Descending. I. Small Intestine. L. Liverand Gall Bladder. P. Pancreas. R. Rectum. S. Testicle. In addition to an involvement of the various importantnerves and plexuses of nerves, both of the cerebrospinaland sympathetic nervous systems heretofore illustrated,there is also a clogging or congestion of the veins of thisregion, especially those of the pampiniform plexus, as aresult of engorgement of the veins of the prostate, bladder,and rectum. Plate Via illustrates these veins in a congested state ofenlargement, or turgescence. The veins of the bladder, bowels, testicles and prostatebeing so closely connected that the clogging of one neces-sarily involves the others, and so dams up the blood cur-rent as to affect many of the abdominal organs; hence, youhave
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