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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 13 of 653five to seven weeks amid a gradual abatement of all the symptoms.Such a simple and favorable course does not by any means constitute the rule; generally we meet with one or more complicationIn the first stage, we not unfrequently meet with a considerableinflammation, on which account a gonorrhoea of this kind has beentermed erythematous, with distinct febrile motions. The inflammatory stage may be protracted beyond the above-named period.In the next place we sometimes observe inflamed spots in the neigborhood of the urethra, elongated or rounded infiltrations whichsometimes terminate in abscesses, but are not always of great importance. The extension of the inflammation along the wholecourse of the urethra is apt to superinduce a simple congestive oeven inflammatory affection of the prostate gland, rarely of thebladder. An inflammation of the prostate gland involves danger,because it may result in a more or less complete retention of urior terminate in suppuration. Orchitis will be spoken of more fullby and by. Inflammatory swellings of the inguinal glands, socalled gonorrhoeal buboes, are very common. They are of no special importance, and disappear of themselves as soon as the inflamatory stage has run its course.Isolated deviations from this picture of gonorrhoea, exert littleno influence upon its general course. The so-called dry gonorrhoeconsists in a short-lasting suspension of the purulent secretion,is most commonly accompanied by an exacerbation of the inflammatory symptoms. It not unfrequently happens that at the commencement of the disease streaks of blood are mixed up with thepus, which does not influence the further course of the disease.so-called torpid gonorrhoea which has the peculiar characteristicbeing totally or partially without any inflammatory symptoms, isof rare occurrence and mostly attacks individuals who have had thdisease more than once. It cannot be denied that repeated attacksof gonorrhoea and the cauterizing action of the injections used ding the treatment of such attacks, diminish the disposition to cotract an inflammatory gonorrhoea.One of the most painful complications is chordae by which is understood the curving of the penis downwards during an erection.It arises when the corpora cavernosa have become involved in theinflammation and the consequent infiltration of these bodies doesnot permit the interstitial swelling of these parts during an ereUrethritis. 5tion. This trouble is so much more serious as this condition of tcorpora cavernosa may remain a permanent disorganization.One of the most ordinary consequences of gonorrhoea, which is socommon, that it may almost be considered the rule, is gleet, a chnic urethritis or secondary gonorrhoea. It arises gradually fromacute form, the discharge becoming more and more scanty, clearerand thinner, and continuing all the time, sometimes for years, unless arrested by medical interference. It often defies all treatmA discharge of this kind would be of comparatively trifling importance if we knew to a certainty whether it is infectious or not,latter supposition having undoubtedly the larger amount of probahttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt