On spermatorrhoea : its causes, symptomatology, pathology, prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment / by Roberts Bartholow.

  • Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.
Date:
1866
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    the erections commence to diminish, the semen is more aqueous; the dimensions of the spermatozoa are sometimes one-fourth or one-third their normal size, their caudal prolongation being distinguishable with difficulty, with a power of 300 diameters.* The central idea of M. Lallemand’s theory of the pathology of spermatorrhoea, is the production, by various causes, of an irritation or inflammation of the prostatic portion of the urethra and of the seminal ducts. This view is not supported by anatomical evidence. Although cadaveric exami- nations, as is well said by M. Raige-Delorme,f have resulted in the discovery of diverse alterations of the genital organs in cases in which seminal losses were 'presumed to have existed, these altera- tions were so connected 'with important diseases of other parts of the genito-urinary apparatus, that little reliance can be placed in them as indica- tive of spermatorrhoea. These alterations consisted in ulcerations of the orifices of the ejaculatory ducts; injection and ulceration of various parts of these canals; analogous alterations of the vesiculm seminales ; purulent depots in the vesicles ; in the * Op. Cit., II. p. 404. f Diclionnaire de Medicine, Vol. 28, p. 50G.