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Vibration therapy of the prostate

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Title: A non-surgical treatise on diseases of the prostate gland and adnexa
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Overall, George Whitfield
Subjects: Prostate
Publisher: Chicago) Rowe Publishing co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ter relief of prostatitis, the currentthus used, passing through the genito-spinal center andthe genital organs, will often restore their normal func-tions after everything else fails. This method of treatment does not act as a stimulant orexcitant of the genital organs, as do some medicines, tobe followed by subsequent depression, but serves as a tonicand restores natural vigor. Fig. XYIIIa illustrates an instrument also devised bythe author for the special treatment of the prostate andvesicles through the rectum. The upper electrode part isinsulated about two-thirds and is screwed to the vibrator.It is five inches in length and when inserted may be passedup so as to come in apposition to the entire vesicles; orwithdrawn and concentrated upon the prostate alone. Thevibrations can be regulated from 3,000 to 10,000 perminute. The instrument is indispensable in the treatmentof vesiculitis, as there are no other means known to sciencethat will reach these organs. It has been attempted to
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Fig. XVIIIa. PROSTATE GLAND AND ADNEXA. treat them by finger massage, but it is well known to anyone familiar with anatomy and the position of theseorgans that the fingers are too short to reach them. Be-sides, it is patent to any one familiar with these troublesthat simply the introduction of the fingers for the treat-ment of the prostate and vesicles is nothing compared inutility with the high vibratory action of this instrument.When properly used, it is painless, and in some instancesvery soothing. Its after-effects are very marked. Thecases where the instrument is specially indicated is chronicvesiculitis, chronic inflammation of the prostate and neckof the bladder, impotency, and atony of all these organs.In long standing inflammation of the bladder, prostateand vesicles they lose their tone and become partiallyIJaralyzed, and there is nothing that so aroused normalactivity as the use of this instrument. If these organs areat all tender, the upper end of the instrument must bedir

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