The philosophy of marriage : in its social, moral, and physical relations; with an account of the diseases of the genito-urinary organs ... with the physiology of generation in the vegetable and animal kingdoms; being part of a course of obstetric lectures delivered at the North London School of Medicine / by Michael Ryan.

  • Ryan, Michael, 1800-1840.
Date:
1839
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    surface of the prepuce become inflamed, the disease is termed balanitis, or spurious gonorrhoea. It may be slight or severe, and induce phyraosis, or paraphymosis, and these, if neglected or mismanaged, may be followed by sloughing of a part or the whole of the penis. Urethritis — Gonorrhoea in Women.—The urethra is much shorter and more capacious in females than ia the other sex, and hence, the inflammatory symptoms are less violent, although the disease is of longer duration, extends to the external genitals and to the vagina, thus affecting a much greater surface than in man. When these parts are acutely inflamed, sexual intercourse is performed with more or less pain and difficulty, and sometimes becomes intolerable; but when the disease is chronic, there is no inconvenience. The discharge is very ahundant, and sometimes comes in contact with the extremity of the rectum, which it in- flames, when the mucous membrane of this part affords a whitish or purulent secretion. If the mucous lining of the rectum is inflamed, there will be heat and pain in the part, which are greatly aggravated on evacuating the bowels, and the stools will be mixed with mucus or yellow matter, and sometimes with blood. When the mucous membrane of the vagina is irritated by other causes, it secretes abundantly, there will be a whitish or yellowish discharge, termed whites, or leu- corrhoea; and the worst form of this disease may com- municate a sUght discharge to the male, which is not contagious urethritis, as lately maintained by Mr. Travers. In such cases there is only a slight urethral discharge in the male, unaccompanied by pain or the other symptoms