The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age : being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system adapted for every man's own private use / by Frederick Hollick.

  • Hollick, Frederick, 1818-1900.
Date:
1853
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Credit: The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age : being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system adapted for every man's own private use / by Frederick Hollick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    It is met with at all ages, and in almost every variety of constitution, though most frequently attacking those who are subject to derangements of the digestive organs. It very often appears to result from some disease of the Testes, particularly Orchitis, and from Varicocele, or disease of the Kidneys. Many persons experience it from Gravel, and still more from the passage of a stone from the Kidneys to the Bladder. Gouty subjects are liable to it, and so are those affected with enlargement of the Prostate Gland. In the treatment of Neuralgia of the Testes, the first thing is to ascertain if there exists any other disease, which may possibly cause it. The Diges- tive Organs must be attended to, and the patient must be advised to avoid all causes of mental dis- quiet, or nervous agitation. Internal medication is seldom of much use, though in some cases relief is obtained by taking Iron, in various forms, particu- larly the Pills of the Carbonate of Iron, and if the attacks be regularly periodical, Quinine may be of service, in doses of five grains, three or four times a day. Turpentine is occasionally very efficacious, in the following form : E. The yolk of one Egg ; oil of Turpentine, three drachms ; syrup of Orange-peel, and syrup of Tolu, of each two ounces; Laudanum, one drachm. These are all to be well mixed together, and three table-spoonfuls to be taken daily. Warm fomentations of hops, or poppy heads, will sometimes benefit, but at other times ice-water will be still better. A blister may be put upon the Scrotum, if all other means fail, and a quarter of a grain of Morphia placed or the raw surface. A