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 . hing coup to an expiring clap, isto repeat the act that gave rise to it: the disease becomestemporarily aggravated, and the impatient invalid proba-bly flies, from an unwillingness to confess his new error,from his own tried medical friend to some professionalstranger. From a desire to earn fame as well as profit,the newly consulted prescribes some more powerful means;the discharge
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 . hing coup to an expiring clap, isto repeat the act that gave rise to it: the disease becomestemporarily aggravated, and the impatient invalid proba-bly flies, from an unwillingness to confess his new error,from his own tried medical friend to some professionalstranger. From a desire to earn fame as well as profit,the newly consulted prescribes some more powerful means;the discharge is arrested for a while, but returns after thenext sexual intercourse; a strong injection subdues therecurrent symptom, which only awaits a fresh excitementfor its reappearance. Thus a gleet is established. Thepatient finding little or no inconvenience from the slightoozing, which, as he observes, is sometimes better and oc-casionally worse, according to his mode of living, deter-mines to let nature achieve l»?r own cure, and for monthshe drags with him a distemper that, despite all his philos-ophy, he can not reflect on without an humiliating diminu-tion of self approval. So insidiously, however, does the. 46 A POPULAR TREATISE complaint worm its progress, that the patient, consideringhis present state the worst that can befall him, resolves toendure it, since it appears his own constitutional powersare incapable of throwing it off. In the midst of this contentment, theinvalid finds that the process of urina-ting engages more time than formerly,the urine appears to flow in a smallerstream, and is accompanied by a sensa-tion as though there were some pressure behind it. The act of making wateris not performed so cleanly as it used tobe; the stream differs in its flow, sel-dom coming out full and free, but gen-erally split into three or four fountain-like spirts, as the annexed drawing displays. At other times it Iwists into a spiralform, and then suddenly splits into twoor mor
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