The philosophy of marriage : being four important lectures on the functions and disorders of the nervous system, and reproductive organs, illustrated with cases / by L.J. Jordan.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
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[1865]
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    blood. God grant it may (through your help) not be too late. CHAPTER VI. SPERMATORRHOEA. The term spermatorrhoea is applied in all cases where emissions of seminal fluid take place otherwise than in obedience to the impulse arising from the natural act of coition, or the will of the person in whom it occurs. It has been already remarked, that the semi- nal fluid is stored up in the vesiculae seminales, and that small ducts open from the junction of these with the vasa deferentia into the urethra, and that, by means of these ducts, the fluid es- capes. Now, in the healthy state, these ducts are continually kept closed, so that the semen cannot escape, except in obedience to the im- pulse arising from the natural act of coition, but when they become weakened by excessive venery, or, what is more common by the habit to which the last chapter was devoted, dillata- tion follows, and the slightest degree of pressure will cause the semen—as yet imperfectly formed —to escape ; such pressure, for example, as would be present when the faeces were passing through the rectum, or when the bladder was contracting to empty itself. It will be remem- bered that the vesiculae seminales are situated immediately between the bladder and the rec- tum, so that, when the faeces are passing down the latter, there is necessarily pressure upon