A practical private treatise on the diseases of the genital organs : with illustrative plates, adapted to the use of every individual / by Joseph Ralph.

  • Ralph, Joseph (Joseph E.)
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1852
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    parts resist, are stretched with difficulty, or even torn, giving excessive pain. Sometimes, thus thickened and altered by inflammation they will hardly yield at all, the figure of the penis is then more or less crooked, as we often see; the pain accompanying this is terrible. It is what is called Chordee,—the prevention or cure of which we shall presently come to, (Chapter iv). The fourth and last of the occasional symptoms of a Gonorrhasa is Swelling of the Testicle. This I consider a very important thing, for here the pain is so great, and the necessity of rest and lying in bed so urgent, that it is difficult to cure such cases with that secrecy which is so often desirable. Much however, may be done to prevent it, if early attended to, and therefore the symptoms which precede and lead to it, shall be no- ticed carefully. The first thing which precedes a swelling of the testicle is a sense of pain running down the whole length of the urinary passage, accompanied with a feeling as if a drop or two of urine were remaining in the passage after making water. To this there succeeds a dull pain in the groin, going on to affect the testicle, which presently feels heavy and very tender to the touch; or, the pain and tenderness of the testicle may set in at once without any of these premonitory symptoms. No time should be lost. It should be attacked instantly, in order, it possible, to arrest the infiammatior, before fullv rteve'.onerf