The homopathic guide : in all diseases of the urinary and sexual organs, including the derangements caused by onanism and sexual escesses, with a strict regard to the present demands of medical science, and accompanied by an appendix on the use of electro-magnetism in the treatment of these diseases / by Wm. Gollmann. Translated, with additions, by Chas. J. Hempel.

  • Gollmann, Wilhelm.
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1855, ©1854
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Credit: The homopathic guide : in all diseases of the urinary and sexual organs, including the derangements caused by onanism and sexual escesses, with a strict regard to the present demands of medical science, and accompanied by an appendix on the use of electro-magnetism in the treatment of these diseases / by Wm. Gollmann. Translated, with additions, by Chas. J. Hempel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The female urethra extends in the pelvic cavity downwards and forwards, forming a slightly convex curve, then courses along the mesian line of the anterior wall of the vagina, passes forwards under the symphysis pubis, between the crura of the clitoris, and ends between the labia minora, a few lines in front of, and above the orifice of the vagina. The Urinary Secretion. The blood is conducted to the kidneys by their arteries, and, after passing through a multitude of ramifications, arrives at the cortical substance, where it is first transformed into venous blood which the renal veins carry to the inferior vena cava, and afterwards into urine, which passes from the cortical substance into the tubes of Bellini of the medullary substance and oozes from the orifices of the papillae, as may be distinctly seen by pressing upon the latter with the finger. From the papillae the urine is received into the infundibula, the calices, and lastly into the pelvis of the kidney, whence, by its own weight, and by the movements of the diaphragm during respiration, it is pushed forward into the ureters, and finally collects in the bladder which expels its contents as often as the desire for it is felt. The evacuations of the bladder take place in a similar manner as those of the bowels. Under the influence of the will the transverse fibres of the membr-anous portion of the urethra become relaxed, in consequence of which a similar relaxation takes place with the fibres of the sphincter vesicae, and the orifice of the bladder is opened. Shortly after, the transverse muscular fibres of the bladder compress it from all sides ; a similar compression is made by the longitudinal fibres from the apex to the fundus. These contractions which take place with great uniformity and regularity, and are assisted by the voluntary action of the abdominal mus- cles, drive the urine towards the orifice of the bladder, through which it passes into the urethra which is attached to the bladder like a moveable tube to a syringe, and, being