Identifier: 04801644.5817.emory.edu
Title: The Pathology and treatment of venereal diseases (electronic resource): including the results of recent investigations upon the subject
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Bumstead, Freeman J. (Freeman Josiah), 1826-1879
Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases Sexually transmitted diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases Venereology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea
Contributing Library: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
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en to thirty in number, butthat these minute vessels unite into asingle duct, before leaving this portion.Hence the globus major of the epididymis consists of several semi-niferous tubes, any one of which would be sufficient to convey thesemen, in case the others were obstructed; while the body and globusminor contain but one tube, the obliteration of which must com-pletely cut off the communication between the testis and the penis.But it is in this latter portion, viz., the globus minor, that the indu-ration left by an attack of swelled testicle is almost invariablyfound; and, as we shall presently see, it generally effects the oblit-eration of the single duct of the part, and renders the patientimpotent upon the affected side. It now becomes an interesting subject of inquiry, what effect thisobliteration has upon the testis, whether it becomes atrophied, orwhether it remains in a normal condition, and continues to secretesperm Again, in those cases in which epididymitis has occurred
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Vertical section of the testis and epididymis. (After Ghay.) SYMPTOMS. 141 on both sides, an induration may be left in each testicle, totally ob-structing the passage of semen; in such cases does the patient stillretain sexual desires; is he capable of sexual intercourse; and ifso, how does his semen differ from that of a perfectly healthy indi-vidual ? These questions have been ably answered in a paper byDr. L. Grosselin, published in the Archives Generates de Medicine, forSept. 1853. Dr. Grosselins conclusions are based upon experiments upon thelower animals, and upon the observation of nineteen patients affectedwith double induration of the epididymis following gonorrhoea. Thespermatic cord of one side was exposed in two dogs, the vas deferensisolated from the spermatic vessels, and a portion of it excised. Theanimals were killed several months after, when it was found that thetesticle of the side operated on presented the same volume, color, andgeneral character as that of the opp

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