The neuroses of the genito-urinary system in the male : with sterility and impotence / by R. Ultzmann ; translated by Gardner W. Allen.

  • Ultzmann, Robert, 1842-1889.
Date:
1889
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Credit: The neuroses of the genito-urinary system in the male : with sterility and impotence / by R. Ultzmann ; translated by Gardner W. Allen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sons of a perfectly normal constitution may nevertlieless acquire an exalted reflex excitabil- ity, which disposes to neurosis of the genito- urinary system, if they weaken their organism by overstrained physical, but especially by exciting mental, activity long kept up. Not infrequently, indeed, we find nervous vesical tenesmus (cystospasmus) in persons who have exacting night work to do, or in individuals who, in addition to severe mental activity, hold an unusually responsible position, as with cash- iers, secretaries, and such persons. Even so also the cares of life engender the most varied neuroses in the urinary system. Still farther, shocks to the general nervous system, great fright, pain, and grief, give rise to nervous dis- turbances as well of the urinary as of the sexual functions. The immediate influence of the cen- tral nervous system on the urinary apparatus may even be observed in children, when they from fear of threatened punishment pass urine involuntarily in their clothes. Likewise we see vesical tenesmus with polyuria show itself in individuals who keep themselves in a state of long-continued excitement; as, for instance, candidates before severe examinations, when the result is uncertain, or in persons who have engaged in a mercantile speculation of doubt- ful outcome. Great and unexpected loss of property, sucli as sometimes occurs in unfort-