Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... LESSON LI. Masturbation as a cause of urethral stricture--The author's experience favoring the possibility of such cause--Professor S. W. Gross claims stricture as a frequent consequence of masturbation--Five clinical cases in illustration--Traumation as a cause of urethral stricture--Accidental excision of the tissue of the urethral orifice in circumcision causing stricture--Clinical case in illustration--Venereal lesions at the urethral orifice a cause, also injuries from passage of urethral instruments--Blows on the perineum, from various causes, resulting in urethral stricture--Urethral stricture most frequently resulting from gonorrhoeal inflammation--Necessity of appreciating pre-existing strictures--Gonorrhoea always aggravates and often calls attention to strictures previously formed--Symptoms and diagnosis of stricture following gonorrhoea. 3d. In regard to masturbation as a cause of urethral stricture: I have frequently met with cases of lads from 14 to 18 years of age in whom there was no evidence of lithiasis, nor any history of such difficulty, and where there had been no gonorrhoeal trouble or any traumatic accidents, where well-marked strictures were present, constricting the urethra at various points from 10 to 20 millimetres circumference. In all such cases there was a history of excessive masturbation of from 2 to 5, or 6 years' duration. Prof. S. W. Gross of Philadelphia, one of the most accomplished and valued authorities in genito-urinary diseases, wrote me in February, 1876, the following histories of cases in which masturbation was claimed to be the sole cause of urethral stricture, adding the results of examinations in 85 cases of urethral stricture, comprising 147 strictures, showing the proportion in which the various causes of s...
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