VARIOUS COMPLICATIONS.
If the inflammation extends to the neck of the bladder, he has an attack of cystitis. If it goes down along the seminal ducts, it produces swelled testicle, clogged duct, chronic enlargement, cancer, cysts and hopeless wasting of the testicles. If it extends up the ureters, it causes Bright’s Disease, abscess of the kidneys, or lumbar fistula. If it runs forward along the urine canal, it produces so-called gleet. If it settles in the prostate gland and becomes chronic, it may cause abscess of the gland, retention of the urine, and certainly either or both Spermatorrhœa or Impotency.
It may thus be seen how exceedingly dangerous a disease this Prostatitis is, and how very important it becomes to check it at the earliest possible moment.
SYMPTOMS.—We have space for but the most prominent and frequent ones: a dull, aching, dragging or throbbing pain between the legs, made worse by standing, walking, jolting, &c., and sometimes relieved by hard pressure, or lying down with one’s feet higher than their head; pain, burning or smarting on passing urine; twisting of the stream; the oozing of a thin, glairy fluid; sticking together of the lips of the mouth of the urinal canal; soreness, aching or tenderness of one or both testicles; dull pain or ache in the small of the back or buttocks; dizziness, sudden fits of exhaustion, convulsions, coma and death. A microscopical examination of the urine will reveal the nature of the difficulty in a moment. There also will be found evidences of great nervous wear and tear, and seminal losses, more or less constant.
L’ECOLE DE MEDICINE, PARIS.
The most celebrated Medical College in France, in which both Civiale and Lallemand were Professors.
GLEET AND STRICTURE AS A CAUSE OF SPERMATORRHŒA AND IMPOTENCY.
These two diseases are probably less understood than almost any other equally common. It is safe to say that at least one man out of every ten has, Our Crayons are Inserted without Pain. has had, or will have one or both. Neglected gleet often causes stricture; neglected or improperly treated stricture often causes and keeps up a gleet.
Another set of statements, equally sweeping and based upon the best of medical evidence, may be made, i.e., more cases of gleet and stricture are caused by Self-Abuse (masturbation, Onanism), and sexual excesses than by gonorrhœa—formerly and ignorantly supposed to be about the only cause.