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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 11 of 653tation produced by foreign bodies in the urethra (calculi, etc.);it may be caiised by excessive sexual intercourse, intercourse duing the menstrual flow, irritating drugs, etc., although not frequently by the latter; it may likewise have a catarrhal originand, finally, may constitute a symptom of other inflammations,more especially of the bladder and prostate gland. In a case ofblennorrhoea we should never be too hasty in not attributing it tthe contact with an infectious virus. Gonorrhoea proper or an infectious blennorrhoea of the urethra, is always occasioned by inftious contact; and, although we cannot deny the possibility thatgonorrhoea may result without sexual intercourse, yet in the majoity of cases it may be boldly asserted that an impure coition iscause of the disease. Of course, the patienta make every possibleeftbrt to conceal the origin of their trouble. What conditions aninfluences have to co-operate in order to produce an infection, idiflElcult to determine : all we know is, that the same woman wilinfect one person without infecting the other. The degree of sexuexcitement may possibly constitute an additional cause of infectiat all events it is remarkable that novices are almost always cau1 (1)2 Diseases of the Male Sexual Organs.Regarding the natare of the gonorrhoea! contaginm, opinionsstill differ. Some deny the specific natare of the contaginm , plit in the same category as the secretion of epidemic blepharophthmitis ; they assert that gonorrhoea is caused by contact with thesecretion caused by an intense catarrhal inflammation of the vagiThis view is not entirely unfounded, and is more particularly supported by the circumstance that gonorrhoea does not superinduceconstitutional diseases. Others attribute to the gonorrhoea! viruspecific character, and the power of producing constitutional maldies, concerning whose essential actuality and nature, we shall oBome farther remarks in the following paragraphs. The gonorrhoealvirus has even been supposed to be identical with the chancropoison; this opinion has, however, been abandoned. We cannotafford time or space to enter upon a more extensive discussion ofthese points, to which we shall, however, refer somewhat more fulin the next paragraph. [Jahr's recent work on Venereal Diseases,translated and edited with numerous notes and additions by Chs.J. Hempel, M. D., and published by W. Badde, No. 550 Pearl St.,New York, is the best work on this important subject now extant,in the literature of our School; no physician who desires to havefull and accurate knowledge of the various opinions now prevalentregarding the nature of the gonorrhoeal virus and the syphiliticcontaginm, or of the manifold disorders which they are capable ofproducing, from the simplest blennorrhoea to the most terrible diorganization, or of their homoeopathic treatment as conducted inaccordance with strictly and unimpeachably scientific principles,can do without this work. H.]Symptoms tMtd Course. The time between the first communicationof the gonorrhoeal disease and its actual manifestatiois from three to eight days, very seldom either less or more, altthe patients are very apt to indicate a longer period. Usually, hever, this is an intentional deception, but may likewise be an erfor the reason that the disease sometimes sets in so mildly thathttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt