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 . t; andwhat is more consolatory to persons of feeble health, thecomplaint seldom extends beyond two or three inches fromthe orifice, so that it need not be feared beyond the reachof relief. See annexed drawing :— 1. Rectum. 2. Orifice of Rectum. 3. Stricture of tlie Rectum, with internal hemorrhoids in the lower portion. There are some surgeons who state all diseases to em-anate from


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 . t; andwhat is more consolatory to persons of feeble health, thecomplaint seldom extends beyond two or three inches fromthe orifice, so that it need not be feared beyond the reachof relief. See annexed drawing :— 1. Rectum. 2. Orifice of Rectum. 3. Stricture of tlie Rectum, with internal hemorrhoids in the lower portion. There are some surgeons who state all diseases to em-anate from a disordered liver, a weak stomach, or a bro-ken wind; and there are others in this town who arenever consulted but they deem the use of the rectum bou-gie indispensable. The limit to structural disorganizationof the bowel is not afforded by stricture; there are, un-fortunately, many diseases springing therefrom, and manytotally independent of such ; but their deiail here wouldexceed the titular object of the book. Enough has beenstated to convince any person teased with any of the enu-merated symptoms, that however simple may be his mal-ady in his own opinion, it is impolitic to overlook or neg-lect 200 A POPULAR TREATISE ON THE URINE. AVe shall conclude our treatise by a few remarks ondiseases of the urine, to which many are subject. Beforeproceeding to speak of them, it is necessary, for a full un-derstanding of the subject, to state, that the urine is se-creted by two bodies called kidneys, placed one on each(side of the back-bone, as is shown in the cut. After be-


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