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Excerpt from The Western and Southern Medical Recorder, Vol. 2: January, 1843
Cm: V - A young man was placed under my ca1e for disease of the rectum; characterized by occasional intense irritation, follow ed by hemorrhage, sometimes alarming m extent. An examina tion showed a tumor as large asza small walnut, which, though at tached within the external sphincter, was protruded under this ef fort. This tumor was erectile 1n structure, very rough 111 its sur face, and m every crevice were numbers of ascarides; and it was through their agency that the irritation seemed to be developed, so as to provoke hemorrhage. When this irritation was great, and this was at least once in twenty-four hours, it induced a discharge of spermatic fluid. In this case the treatment was clearly marked out, and there was a fair ground for supposing that when the 1rri tation within the rectum had ceased, the spermatic discharges would also cease A ligature was placed around the tumor, and the irritation within the rectum was cured: but although what was conceived to be the cause of the ospermatic discharge had ceased, the discharge. Had not. Neither, 1n two months after wards, had it shown any disposition to do so, for m the previous twenty eight days it had happened thn teen times, sometimes during sleep, some times du1ing the day. Whatever may have been the original ex citing cause, it was 110w oleai. That some one still existed. The canal of the urethra was examined, and great morbid sensibility was detected beyond the curvature. Caustic was at once applied over the part; it occasioned Spasmodic contlaction of the rectum, which continued for two days, and thei1 d1sappea1 ed 011 the two or three following occasions of passing the urine, there was a good deal of smarting, and there was rather a profuse, thinnish discharge, at one time streaked with blood, which did not completely disap pear until the eleventh day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.