Identifier: michiganmedicaln41881detr (find matches)
Title: Michigan medical news
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Medicine Medicine
Publisher: Detroit : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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d plenty of good food, and has not suffered from exposure. No history of syphilis. He had gonorrhoea eighteen months ago, for which he was treated in the City Dispensary. In three months 172 MICHIGAN MEDICAL NEWS. the discharge ceased. Shortly after this he noticed swelling of the genital organs, which was made worse by rubbing of the clothing while he was at work. The swelling gradually increased not with-standing treatment, until latterly he has been compelled to give up work. During the year he noticed that rest always improved the condition of the parts so far as the pain was concerned, and that when he The patient remained in hospital for about ten months leaving in the following May. During his stay he suffered occasionally from acute febrile attacks which would always denote a localize inflammation of the genital organs, or in their immediate neighbourhood. These inflammations would some-times result in the formation of abscesses, and pus would be discharged through small fistulous open- to
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returned to work the parts would soon become so painful that he had again to desist. Present Condition.—The patients general health is poor. The penis, the part principally affected, is very much increased in size, hard and presenting on the surface watery excrescences. The prepuce is so much hypertrophied that the glans penis is almost buried from view. The scrotum is also enlarged and there is also hypertrophy of the connective tissue of the perineum. Wf ings. The part would remain somewhat enlarged after each attack of inflammation. These attacks formed one of the most troublesome features of the case. He also suffered from chronic albuminuria. The urine contained granular and hyaline casts. The treatment at diffel-ent times was of a tonic and alterative character. Strapping appeared to be of temporary benefit. The patient did not improve during the year leaving the hospital, if anything worse than when he came in. MICHIGAN MEDICAL NEA\^S. 173 During the summer of 1880 patient again entered the

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