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Sep 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Images from “Gonorrhea in the male - a practical guide to its treatment” by AL Wolbarst, (1911) showing treatment by injecting hot antiseptic into the urethra.

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“The most popular method of local treatment consists of irrigations with large quantities of hot antiseptic fluid. These irrigations maybe administered in three ways.” Image
“1) By hydrostatic pressure; (2) by the large syringe” Image
“or (3) by means of a catheter. In all of these methods the object sought for is the introduction of alarge quantity of warm fluid into the bladder, which is then passed out by the patient per urethram.” Image

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1. The historian Strabo (64BCE - 24 ACE) described operations on the clitoris

2. Galen (129-126 ACE) called the clitoris “the nymph” in his “on the usefulness of the parts of the body.”

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Jul 22, 2023
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