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[20.] Endoskopische Befunde bei Erkrankungen des Samenhugels Wein, 1880.
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We Cure where a Cure is Possible.
STRICTURE THE RESULT OF MASTURBATION,
AND THE CAUSE OF WEAKNESS AND IMPOTENCE.
In brief it may be stated that Masturbation in early life, and sexual excesses at a later period, may, and do produce congestion, inflammation, spasm, ulceration, granulations, ulcers, and both spasmodic and organic strictures of the urethra; that Spermatorrhœa and Impotence are due to this condition, and that the only really rational treatment is that which directly medicates and heals these parts. This, Civiale’s Soluble Urethral Crayons do, better and quicker than anything else. Prof. Gross,[24] for instance, says: “Exclusive of these cases, my notes show that 13 out of every 100 cases of stricture are due to Onanism;” and Otis[25] says: “9 per cent. of all cases are traceable to that practice.” Reeves, Henry Smith, Goulet, Physic and Leroy give masturbation as a cause of stricture. Black states a like case leading to sexual incapacity, as a result of the stricture. Wade says: “In several instances of the kind, where there had been no sexual intercourse, the strictures, which were at the bulb, proved more than usually refractory from the extreme morbid sensitiveness of the whole urethral canal.”
Gross goes on to say, that in at least eight out of every ten cases of Spermatorrhœa or Impotence, stricture of the urethra is the cause of the trouble, whether the stricture is due to gonorrhœa, gleet, etc., or to masturbation or excesses.