On spermatorrhoea : its causes, symptomatology, pathology, prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment / by Roberts Bartholow.

  • Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.
Date:
1866
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Credit: On spermatorrhoea : its causes, symptomatology, pathology, prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment / by Roberts Bartholow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II. 5 YMP TOMA TOL OGY. The signs and symptoms of spermatorrhoea may be divided into the objective and subjective: the ob- jective being those which are recognised by the physicians; the subjective, those of which the patient himself only is conscious. It is not always possible to separate the symptoms due to masturbation from those of spermatorrhoea. There is a practical utility in placing them side by side for the purpose of comparison. The two con- ditions are so frequently united, and the connexion between them of cause and effect so intimate, that the symptoms of both may be comprehended in the experience of the same individual. It is re- marked that the voluntary seminal losses by unnatural means are much more active in pio- ducing the various secondary phenomena ot this disorder, than the involuntary, lhe former are manifested, also, by more positive objective signs.