Identifier: 60511650R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: Medical adviser & marriage guide : representing all the diseases of the genital organs of the male and female
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Larmont, M. (Martin)
Subjects: Marriage Genital Diseases, Male Genital Diseases, Female
Publisher: New York : Warner
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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em. GONORRHOEA IN THE MALE. In France it is commonly known under the nameof ckaude pisse ; in England and in this country, itis called clap, from the French clapier, which signi-fies a filthy abscess. The circumstances which favor its contraction,ere a large meatus in the penis, and the fact that,during erection and previous to the ejection of thesemen, the orifice of the urethra has a great tend-ency to open, thereby favoring the introduction ofthe gonorrhoeal matter. This undoubtedly occursprevious to emission, otherwise the disease wouldbe more common than it is, if it was not forcedout of the urethra by the ejaculated semen. The symptoms of Gonorrhoea consist in, at first,a sensation between pain and a pleasurable feelingnear the end of the penis, just within the urethra,which frequently excites erections. Soon after,however, follows an increase of pain, heat, rednessof the meatus, scalding on making water, and athick yellow or greenish-yellow, discharge from the PLATE 10. Fig 20.
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GLEET. 121 arethra. Sometimes, there is great difficulty ofpassing urine, with excessive inflammation of theemi of the penis and prepuce. These symptoms are soon followed in many casesby Chordee, which depends upon the loss of elas-ticity of the tissues which surround the urethra, andwhich during erections do not yield as iu health,so that the penis is drawn downwards or bent toeither side, exciting great suffering in those whoseorgans increase much iu size during erection. In severe cases, cramp, pains in the testicle, afeeling of tightness in the groin, pricking in theperineum below the testicles, and frequent desire topass water, add to the severity of the case. These symptoms increase as the disease travelsdown the canal. These are the moie urgent symptoms of the acutestage. Chronic Stage—Gleet.—In consequence of notreatment, or that which is inefficient, the acutestage degenerates into the chronic, which is knownby a marked mitigation of all the symptoms of theacute form. The

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