Spermatorrhoea : its causes, symptoms, results and treatment / by Roberts Bartholow.

  • Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Spermatorrhoea : its causes, symptoms, results and treatment / by Roberts Bartholow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in which emission takes place quickly with feeble erections. Tonics.—Iron, quinine, the vegetable bitters, the mineral acids, are indicated in anaemic cases. The hygienica, air, exercise, bathing, travel, etc., are valuable adjuncts to the remedial measures. The Therapeutical Management of Sper- matorrhea comprehends— First, the treatment of the causes. Second, the treatment of the malady. The Treatment of the Causes.—We have al- ready expressed the opinion that venereal ex- cesses, and especially masturbation, are the causes of spermatorrhoea, in a vast major- ity of cases as they occur in this country. Hence it is important to recognize this vice at an early period, to prevent the immediate and remote consequences of its continued perpetra- tion. We have already seen that this vice is con- tracted chiefly by boys in whom the nervous preponderates over the muscular and digestive systems, and that certain moral and social