A treatise on the nature and treatment of seminal diseases, impotency, and other kindred affections : with practical directions for the management and removal of the cause producing them, together with hints to young men . This plate is a plan of the structure of the testes and epididymis,showing the seminiferous tubes which convey the semen from the tu-buli seminiferi, and discharge it at last into the vas deferens, or greatseminal duct, that terminates in the prostatic portion of the urethra. 3 3 3 3, seminiferous tubes ;*»•**, their anastomoses ; 4, rete tes-tis; 5 5, head of the epididymis


A treatise on the nature and treatment of seminal diseases, impotency, and other kindred affections : with practical directions for the management and removal of the cause producing them, together with hints to young men . This plate is a plan of the structure of the testes and epididymis,showing the seminiferous tubes which convey the semen from the tu-buli seminiferi, and discharge it at last into the vas deferens, or greatseminal duct, that terminates in the prostatic portion of the urethra. 3 3 3 3, seminiferous tubes ;*»•**, their anastomoses ; 4, rete tes-tis; 5 5, head of the epididymis; 6, body of the epididymis; 7 7, vasdeferens, or great seminal duct; 8, cauda ; 9, append.*; 10, vasaefferentia; 11, flexures of the efferent vessels passing to 5 5, the headof the epididymis. 238 DOUCHE DOUCHE BATH. This drawing represents the kind of douchebath which I have had constructed for thetreatment of seminal diseases. The same ap-plication of water can be very easily made inevery house where the Croton water is intro-duced. APPENDIX. To conclude this work on Seminal Diseases, Ihave appended a number of prescriptions, which,in my practice, I have found among the bestremedies in the treatment of affections of thisdescription. In the selection of medicines, how-ever, much depends upon the peculiarities of in-dividual cases ; and it requires the discrimina-tion of the practitioner to determine which maybe the most appropriate. RUBEFACIENTS. Embrocations. r> Spirit. Camphorae, Acetici fort., § Opii, Embrocatio. To be applied when there areshooting pains about the loins or peringeum, two orthree times a day. 240 APPENDIX. No. 2. ft Tinct. Opii, ^ss. Aquae Ammonias, 3iss«Liniment. Saponis, ^ be used as the preceding. Nu. 3. tjL Spirit. Camphora


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