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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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to the spermatic vessels and ducts, isusually the most difficult and troublesome. It is the open door toimpotency, and frequently the latter exists with it, or perhaps I hadbetter say, that it continues after impotency has taken place. A person afflicted with sperma-torrhoea of this character losesthe seminal fluids on almostany occasion giving rise toamative emotion, or physicaleffort. They exude when inthe company of ladies, or inriding, walking, or urinating,and particularly at stool, ifcostive. Fig. 141 representsa microscopic view of thefloating mucus and sperma-tozoa as found in the urine ofone afflicted with this disease.The spermatic fluids may bewasted in this way for weeks, months, and sometimes years, if theconstitution of the victim holds out so long, without his being awareof the drain which his system is laboring under, although he cannotfail to suffer from its effects. Some persons of constipated habit,troubled with this form of spermatorrhoea, eject large quantities at
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SPERMATOZOA, ETC., Discovered, by the aid of the microscope, in theurine of one having the worst form of sperma-torrhoea. SEMINAL WEAKNESS. 537 every stool; others will merely find, by examination, a drop or twooozing from the urethra. These diurnal losses are, if possible, moreexhaustive than the nocturnal, and the mental sufferings of the pa-tient are usually intense. I have yet to speak of a more difficult and debilitating form ofspermatorrhoea than what I have already mentioned, and that is acomplication involving both of the forms described. Persons affect-ed in this way will have occasional erections, attended with frightfullosses, while they are almost constantly suffering with diurnal dis-charges. Their procreative organs seem to be vibrating betweenan excess of nervous stimulus and an entire want of it. There isseldom, in such cases, any control of the parts. Erections will takeplace involuntarily, when cohabitation is not thought of, but whendesired, the erectile tissue and

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