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tumid, and to issue a little mucous discharge. Some few days 

 afterwards the desire to stale becomes more frequent, and the 

 emissions ofurine more painful; the running also increases and 

 grows thicker, turns yellow or green, and is capable of being 

 forced out by pressure from above downwards ; the end of the 

 penis and the prepuce become swollen ; and all this is accom- 

 panied by frequent and painful erections. When the inflam- 

 mation runs high, pressure upon the penis occasions a great 

 deal of pain in the urethra, bloody streaks are perceptible in 

 the discharge, and so great is the tumidity of the membrane of 

 the urethra, that the urine can be emitted but in small jets or 

 drops, and with considerable difficulty and pain. Erections 

 become more frequent and painful ; the penis grows curved ; 

 and engorgement of the testicles, spermatic cords, and scrotum 

 or sheath, supervene. The testicles hang lower than usual, 

 sometimes they swell, and grow hard and painful, in particular 

 the epididymes ; the spermatic cord partakes of all this, and 

 occasionally presents the appearance of champignon, feesides 

 this, ulcerations may be observable upon the body of the 

 penis, particularly about its lower extremity ; and buds, or 

 kinds of nodosities with large bases, more or less developed 

 and prominent, are found firmly adherent to the corpus 

 cavernosum, raising the skin up from it. These ulcerations 

 vary in extent ; sometimes they possess callous elevated 

 borders and livid bases. Lastly, the fossa navicularis at 

 times sends forth red exuberant granulations, which we 

 may take as an indication that the interior of the urethra is 

 in a state of ulceration. 



" This affection is complicated now and then with the 

 disorder of some other mucous membrane, commonly of the 

 bronchitic or enteritic character. 



"The Treatment is necessarily antiphlogistic. Tepid, 

 ^land, nitrcd, mucilaginous fluids both offered as drink, in 

 lieu of water, and given as drenches ; green meat, or, Avheu 

 that cannot be obtained, some good straw; roots, such as 

 carrots and turnips; vapour bath or fomentations ; clysters; 

 and the application of some sort of suspensory bandage to 

 keep the testicles up, and so relieve the chords, constitute 



