DISEASES PECULIAR TO MEN 



OP that quite numerous class of maladies which 

 are peculiar to the male sex, by far the great 

 majority are the result of some form of trans- 

 gression of sexual law. The nature of these trans- 

 gressions has been fully discussed in previous portions 

 of this work, and what has already been said need not 

 be reiterated here. The object of this chapter is to 

 describe in greater detail than has been done in other 

 portions of the work, the nature and sjanptoms of the 

 various diseases of the male sexual organs. 



The intimate association of all the various impor- 

 tant functions of the body through the means of re- 

 flex nervous activity, lays the foundation for that pro- 

 found and extensive influence upon the system at large 

 which is observed to result from nearly all forms of 

 sexual disease. It is, indeed, a common observation 

 that local disorders so slight in character as to produce 

 little or no inconvenience at the seat of disease, pro- 

 voke, through morbid reflex influence, derangements 

 of the most serious and often most distressing char- 

 acter in other portions of the body. Thus we not in- 

 frequently find, as the result of a slight irritability of 

 the prostatic urethra, nervous debility, dyspepsia, 

 emaciation, and a great variety of other marked and 

 distressing symptoms. This fact emphasizes the im- 

 portance of giving to this class of disorders careful 

 and thorough attention. Quite frequently they are 

 overlooked or neglected, even for years. Perhaps the 



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