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 . lt to explain the process; but lymphis that fluid understood to be the nutritious portion of oursustenance or system, and which is here yielded up by thevessels which absorb it, and which vessels abound, withfew exceptions, in every tissue of our body. However, itwill suffice to say, that where inflammation takes place,there is an alteration of structure, and that alteration isgener
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 . lt to explain the process; but lymphis that fluid understood to be the nutritious portion of oursustenance or system, and which is here yielded up by thevessels which absorb it, and which vessels abound, withfew exceptions, in every tissue of our body. However, itwill suffice to say, that where inflammation takes place,there is an alteration of structure, and that alteration isgenerally an increase. In stricture, this increase or thick-ening lakes place, as I observed before, in particular partsof the urethra, but where the inflammation is severe, nopart is exempt, and whole lengths of the passage becomeoccasionally involved. It is true, certain parts are morepredisposed than others, as, for instance, the membranous,bulbous, and prostatic portions of the canal; but thereare oftentimes cases to be met with where these parts arefree, and the remainder blocked up. This effusion orthickening assumes various shapes, and selects variousparts of the urethra. The subjoined diagram will convey. A—The cut edges of the corpus —The —Tho stricture. a tolerably perfect idea of the malady in question ; indeedit is a beautiful specimen of simple stricture. To continue the description of the formidable conse-quences of ncslected stricture. In protracted and neglected cases, that part of the ure- ON VENEREAL DISEASES. 53 Ihra between the stricture and bladder becomes dilated,from the frequent pressure of the urine upon it, inducedby irritability of the bladder, which has an increasing de-sire to empty itself. In process of time, complete retentionof urine will ensue, ulceration will take place at the irri-table spot, and effusion of urine into the surrounding partswill follow; and the consequences will be, as in the in-stance of the spasmodic aff
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