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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 14 of 653bility in its favor. The treacherous stains on the linen are, ofa source of great anxiety to the sufferers, and it is not to be wdered if they desire to be freed from their distress. Finally, exbations will occur during gleet, which, if they do not result inattack of acute gonorrhoea, cause some pain at urinating and anincreased, whitish discharge. Such exacerbations sometimes set inafter slight colds, after drinking beer or wine, or even after coGleet is no guarantee against a fresh infection, but this may absit instead of rendering it more inveterate.Among the sequelse which may involve the bladder, prostategland, etc., we note more especially strictures of the urethra. Ocause of stricture may be a contracting cicatrix in the urethra,which case the bougie is alone capable of affording help. Or thestricture may depend upon infiltration and subse juent callous hypertrophy of the tissue surrounding the urethra, in which case itsometimes felt externally like a hard, elongated swelling.We shall devote a few lines to the so-called gonorrhoeal diseaseand gonorrhoea! metastases. Hahnemann speaks of two kinds ofgonorrhoea, a benign kind which may be regarded as a local diseasof the urethra, and another kind depending upon the sycosic contagium. Ilartmann observes, that the two kinds cannot well be distinguished in a given case. It can scarcely be supposed that condlomata constitute a distinct phenomenon in gonorrhoea, which mayrun its course as completely and rapidly with, as without them. Iblennorhoeic condylomata constituted a specific product, ophthalmblennorhoea ought to be a result of the sycosic miasm, since condlomatous growths likewise occur in the former disease. Be this asit may, it is of very little consequence whether there are two kiof gonorrhoea, for in practice we cannot make this distinction evif we would. It is an established fact, that the gonorrhoea! bear6 Diseases of the Male Sexual Organs.resemblance to the syphilitic contagium, by which is meant that tformer does not develop, as a more or less regular consequence, aconstitutional malady, and that it acts like the contagium of theophthalmic blennorhoea and similarly to the contagium of smallscarlatina, etc. Or shall we consider these contagia as syphiliticause their respective diseases sbmetimes leave severe constitutiderangements behind them? In our opinion, a gonorrhoeal epidemicdisease neither exists, nor is it at all possible. At all events,intense gonorrhceal infection, including, of course, the absurd min which it is often treated^ gives rise to a constitutional diseis wrong to hold the gonorrhoea responsible for it, any more thanthat it may have acted as the exciting cause or the spark that mahave ignited the accumulated combustible material. This view issupported by a number of analogies, whereas the other view requirfor its proof a mass of speculative hypotheses. Let the partisansthis doctrine be invited to point to a case of gonorrhoeal constitional disease. If such a thing did at all exist, it certainly cabe difficult to pick out a dozen cases among the tens of thousandthat have been treated for gonorrhoea. And then it would be incumbent upon them to show that in those cases the gonorrhoea wasa simple blennorrhoea and not caused by a syphilitic ulcer. Hartmann has not made this distinction, nor is it probable that Hahnemann did so.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt