The effect of genital irritation in the production of nervous disorders / by Landon Carter Gray.

  • Gray, Landon Carter, 1850-1900.
Date:
1882
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Credit: The effect of genital irritation in the production of nervous disorders / by Landon Carter Gray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mide ; but yet, as this history must have been written in the early part of November, about a week or two after the last operation, and about the time it was found necessary to commence the bromide, the case contains no proof that the convulsions were due to the genital irritation or was im- proved by the operation. Case 17. Boy, set. 6 weeks. He had never had a good night's rest since his birth, and had to be drugged to secure the least rest. Cried almost incessantly night and day. Legs were in constant motion, penis was in a state of priapism. As soon as it was touched the convulsive movements were aug- mented in severity and rapidity. On crying, small tumors in each inguinal region. Circumcision. Three months after, the mother stated that she had not had a particle of trouble with the child from the second day. As it is not stated that there was phymosis or adhesions in the case—as, therefore, there does not seem to have been any genital irritation—the case would seem to have been one of some central lesion, relieved, for three months at least, by an operation upon the genitals. Case 18. 1£X. 10 weeks. Not a good night's rest since birth ; cried or fretted almost constantly ; in constant jactita- tion. Head thrown back on spine, and kept erect by handker- chief tied around belly. Urine accumulates under prepuce, and dribbles out through a small orifice. Circumcision. Every symptom disappeared, and had not returned three months later. This would be good proof, were it not for the flaw lying in the fact that the case was only three months under obser- vation. Case 19. JEt. 13. Paresis of lower extremities from birth, especially in left leg. Dizziness and pain in lumbar region; nocturnal urinary incontinence. Prepuce firmly adherent, almost to urethral mouth. Adhesions broken up. Disappear- ance of every symptom, except once incontinence, and no re- turn nine months after.