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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    and we have now only to explain those mysteri- cms sympathetic and functional agencies, which, though they are often more powerful, are yet so dif- ferent in their operation, and hitherto so little studied, that but little is generally known respect- ing either their nature or mode of action. This will be fully apparent in our very next article. INFLUENCE OF THE BRAIN ON THE GENERATIVE POWERS. In a former part of this work a number of in- stances were narrated in which impotency followed injuries of the head, and we will now narrate a few others, because this is a most important fact, in many respects. About five years ago I was consulted by a mar- ried man who had totally lost his sexual powers from striking his head against a beam. The blow had stunned him for a time, but did not lead to any serious symptoms afterwards. He found, however, in two or three days after that he was perfectly im- potent, and had so remained for eighteen months when I saw him. There was but little loss of de- sire, with no wasting of the Genital Organs, nor any other indication whatever of his deprivation. He had previously been a man of temperate habits, and at the time of the accident was as vigorous as most men. The blow, it may be as well to remark, was received on the top of the head, and was not fol lowed by any swelling or pain in the Cerebellum or neck. When I saw him he was in perfect health, and in good spirits, in fact nothing was complained of but this unfortunate impotency, which he was very desirous of having removed.