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

  • Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.
Date:
1866
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    turbation and venereal excesses by various bar- man, French, and English writers. By Romberg,* however, the term, “ tabes dorsalis,” is restricted to a nervous disease, identical witli the progiessive locomotor ataxia of Duchenne. On the other hand, so recent an authority as Dr. Meryonf adheres to the ancient idea of tabes dorsalis, defi- ning it as a “ tractable form of paralysis, not un- frequently seen in youth and early manhood, which may be traced to the vicious and enervating habit of masturbation.” How much soever authorities may differ about the nomenclature of the practical fact, there can be no doubt that paraplegia, incon- tinence of urine and faeces, altered and referred sensations in the inferior extremities, hare been ob- served to follow venereal excesses. Irritation of the genital organs not only produces a wide range of disturbances due to derangement of the nervous system, manifested by mania, melancholia, epilepsy, paraplegia, functional car- diac troubles, intestinal disorders, etc., but the * A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man. Edition of Syd. Society, translated by Sieveking, Yol. II. p. 395. \ Practical and Pathological Researches on the Various Forms of Paralysis, p. 44. Loudon, 1864.