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

  • Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.
Date:
1866
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    neal regions by habitual sitting, or prolonged horseback riding. The organic peculiarities which predispose to spermatorrhoea are, according to this author—ex- cessive length of the prepuce; hypospadias; ex- traordinary size of the meatus urethrae; flaccidity of the corpora cavernosa ; smallness, tardy descent, and lack of firmness of the testes; relaxation of the cord and of the scrotum; varicocele; con- genital induration of the prostate, and great de- velopment of the pelvis with feminine charac- ters. When the nocturnal pollutions are due to ex- cesses, to abuse, to the presence of ascarides in the rectum, they produce, according to Lallemand, grave disorders in a short time after their appear- ance. After a little, all the phenomena of excita- tion which precede or accompany the orgasm diminish, and finally completely disappear; the act of emission occurring without erection, plea- sure, or any particular sensation. The semen loses little by little its color, its odor, and its spermatozoa, and comes to resemble more and more, either mucus or the prostatic fluid. This progressive diminution in the excitation of the