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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    a contracted and continuous canal of uniform dimensions, discharges the urine in a single, coherent stream. The force with which the urine is expelled, is about equal to the force that would be required to burst the bladder, if the urine should be prevented, by some mechanical obstacle, from being expelled. The immediate expulsion of- the urine is effected by means of the muscular contractions of the bladder. But the con- tractions themselves are brought about by the action of the nerves, a great many of which are distributed over the walls, and more especially over the neck of the bladder; they pro- ceed from the spinal marrow, and the absence or deficiency of this nervous action causes paralysis of the bladder and a consequent inability on the part of this organ to perform its contractions. One of the principal causes which excites the muscular activity of the bladder, is the urine; it is the most natural and the most frequent cause of its contractions. It stimu- lates the walls of the bladder. According to the quantity and quality of the urine, its stimulating effects are more or less speedily perceived by the bladder. This depends like- wise more or less upon the sensitiveness of the inner surfaces of the bladder, and upon the fact, whether one is in the habit of holding the urine as long as possible, or of voiding it as soon as the least desire for it is felt. In young persons this sensitiveness is greater than in old age. The contractions of the bladder in the young are much more vigorous and rapid than in old people. In females the sensitiveness seems likewise less, for the reason, probably, that a feeling of modesty impels them to hold the urine as long as possible. Individuals who lead a sedentary life; literary men who, while their attention is riveted to scientific subjects, lose sight of the indications of the bladder, are enabled to hold the urine a long time on account of a dimi- nished sensitiveness of the inner surfaces of this organ. The forcible retention of the urine in the bladder, contrary to the natural desire of voiding it, may be productive of incal-