The neuroses of the genito-urinary system in the male with sterility and impotence / by R. Ultzmann.

  • Ultzmann, Robert, 1842-1889.
Date:
1902
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Credit: The neuroses of the genito-urinary system in the male with sterility and impotence / by R. Ultzmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE NEUROSES OF THE GENITO- URINARY SYSTEM IN THE MALE. TPHE neuroses of the male urinary and sex- -*■ ual system belong among the more fre- quent forms of disease. Although the nervous diseases of the urinary system, as well as those of the sexual organs, may occur alone, still we find not infrequently several forms of nervous disease of both systems in the same individual, usually united by one and the same setiological origin, so that it seems best to treat of the neu- roses of the urinary and of the genital organs in the same connection. The aetiology of this class of disease may vary greatly. Now it is to be sought in local changes of the so-called neck of the bladder (prostatic urethra), and now in general disturb- ances of nutrition. The general disturbances of nutrition appear sometimes in consequence of chronic brain and spinal affections, or they consist in that exalted, abnormal reflex excitability, sometimes inherited and congenital, usually, however, associated with anaemia and a feeble constitution. Per-