A practical treatise on impotence, sterility, and allied disorders of the male sexual organs / by Samuel W. Gross.

Date:
1881
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    douching the lower part of the spine with water at the temperature of 120° F. Under this course of treatment, the majority of cases of nocturnal pollutions recover; hut it may happen that the reflex genital centre is still too impressible, in which case galvanization,1 with the anode to the lumbar region and the cathode to the perineum,2 will prove highly serviceable. After the hyper aesthetic symptoms have subsided, if, from the occurrence of diurnal pollutions and of sperm- orrhagia, there is reason to suspect dilatation and atony of the mouths of the ejaculatory ducts, the continuous current, with the negative reophore in the rectum and the positive on the perineum or the lumbar vertebrae, affords the most striking results. This plan is recommended by Mobius;3 and in one case I succeeded in affording relief in twenty days by twelve sittings. Should galvanization prove inadequate, the induced current may be passed through a negative catheter electrode in the prostatic ure- thra to the anode placed on the perineum or spine; hut this mode of application requires great caution,4 and care should be taken to employ a feeble power at the com- mencement. Hence I prefer, with Ultzmann,5 Rosen- thal,6 and Mobius, to replace the urethral by the rectal reophore. In the absence of electrical apparatus, the tonicity of the muscles of the ejaculatory ducts may be greatly improved and even restored by the use of the psy- chrophor,7 by the application of nitrate of silver, and by 1 Consult page 56. 3 Benedikt, Elektrotherapie, p. 466. 3 Memorabilien, Heilbronn, 1879, 24, p. 545. 4 Consult page 57. 6 Wiener Med. Presse, 1876, p. 641. 6 Loc. cit., p. 162. 7 Consult page 55.