A practical treatise on the diseases and abuses of the sexual system / by Joseph Ralph.

  • Ralph, Joseph (Joseph E.)
Date:
1857
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases and abuses of the sexual system / by Joseph Ralph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ple form, and have mentioned those symptoms only which are essential to it, and which are never absent from it; there are however other symptoms which are only some- times present, which may or may not exist, but which, when they do occur (and some of them generally do) form the severest part of the complaint and call for immediate and peculiar remedies. In fact, it is for the want of knowing something of the nature of these accidental symp- toms, that Gonorrhoea assumes its most distressing cha- racter, and leads to the worst consequences. Those cir- cumstances which may or may not occur in Gonorrhoea, and are called accidental symptoms, are the following: a swelling of the prepuce or foreskin ;—swelling of ike glands in the groin;—very painful erections of the penis ; —and swelling of the testicles. The nature of these therefore is now to be explained, but the particular mode of treating them will be given in another Chapter, (in). First, then of Swelling of the Prepuce or Foreskin. This is the effect of inflammation, which a full and irritable disposition or irregularity of habits gives rise to. The structure of the skin which covers the head of the penis (the prepuce) is very loose and cellular, so that when the inflammation happens to be high, this structure fills with the thin and colorless part of the blood which causes it to swell.