SURGERY.
On the use of Collodion for Erections accompanying Blennorrhagia.
By Dr. Doringer.—In the Med. Central Zeitung, there is reported a
case of a rather curious application of collodion for gonorrhceal erections,
and the result was such as we would like to see borne out by other cases :
A young man, aged 28, was attacked for the third time with a blennor-
rhagia, which was accompanied by such severe and painful erections,
that the patient could hardly stay in bed half an hour. After having
tried without avail both camphor and narcotics, Dr. Doringer ordered
cold fomentations, and when the penis had resumed its natural size, the
application over its whole extent, even including its prostatic portion,
to a strong coating of collodion. This had the desired effect, for from
that moment the patient had no erection, and suffered only from a slight
scalding in passing, urine. What proves that the amelioration was really
due to the means employed is, that on the morrow, the collodion being
taken off, the erections returned, but not so severely, and again ceased
on the application of a fresh coating of collodion.—Med. Times and
Gaz.y from Rev. Med. Chir. de Paris.