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Title: Man's mission on earth : a contribution to the science of eugenics : a short treatise on the genito-urinary organs of the male in health and disease, with a chapter on syphilis
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Kahn, R. J. (Robert Johnstone), 1860-
Subjects: Genitourinary organs Syphilis Urologic Diseases
Publisher: New York : Isaac Goldman Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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rectum and theurethra, forming a fistula, through which the urinewill pass into the bowel. About 25 per cent, of all cases of abscess in theprostate result fatally, in spite of the most carefultreatment, while of those that are not treated morethan double that number die. The treatment of acute prostatitis, in addition tocarefully selected medication, is absolute rest in bed, adiet consisting of milk and nothing else and theprompt application of poultices or leeches. Where thepain cannot be borne, opium, morphine or belladonnamay be prescribed; preferably in the form of supposi-tories. A cathartic should always be given in thebeginning of the disease. If an injection is beingused for Gonorrhoea, it should be immediately stopped. Chronic Prostatitis is much oftener seen than theacute; it arises from the same causes, most frequentlyfollowing the acute form, though it sometimes beginsgradually as a chronic condition. It commonly occurswith chronic Gonorrhoea or Gleet and in masturbators,
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CHRONIC POSTERIOR URETHRITIS,OF GONORRHOEAL ORIGIN. R. B. C—Red Blood Corpuscles. B.—Bacteria. P. C.—Pus Corpuscles. S. V.—Epithelia from Seminal Vesicles. M.—Mucus Shreds. U. E.—Urethral Epithelia. E. D.—Epithelia from the Ejaculatory Ducts. S.—Spermatozoa. G.—Gonococci. P. E.—Prostatic Epithelia. D. S.—Degenerated Spermatozoa with Granulation. (157) 158 PROSTATORRH CE A. and, unless carefully treated, almost invariably resultsin hypertrophy of the prostate. Prostatorrhcea, or chronic Catarrhal Inflamma-tion of the prostate, is the name usually given to thisdisease. In this condition there is a cloudy dischargefrom the urethra in greater or less quantities, some-times only a drop, or just sufficient to glue together thelips of the penis in the morning. Often there is quite acopious discharge of the fluid during defecation, andespecially where the patient is constipated. This disease is frequently mistaken for Gonor-rhoea, and more often for Spermatorrhoea, which

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