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Historic, and nutty, treatments for male impotence
For centuries, doctors exploring the causes of penile dysfunction prescribed prayer, ointments and sex-partner advice.
March 17, 2008
Nuts, crocodiles and witch trials may seem to have little to do with viagra cialis online pharmacy pharmacy -- but at one time or another, they've all been employed against erectile dysfunction.
For centuries, doctors struggled to pinpoint the causes of male impotence, blaming such factors as stress, diet, the wrath of deities and unattractive women. Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates attributed impotence to horseback riding; one of his contemporaries placed the blame on childhood trauma; Egyptians to evil spells.
The ancients also left behind an imaginative array of remedies: snacks of almonds, pistachios, dates, currant juice and bird eggs in Persia; a mix of sesame, lentils, rice and sugar cane juice in ancient India -- or goat testicles boiled in milk or butter and boiled alligator testes rubbed on the feet. The Egyptians were more direct, smearing remedies (such as crocodile hearts and wood oil) directly on the penis.
In the Islamic empire, impotence was sometimes blamed on an imbalance in the four fluids, or humors, thought to course through the body. Doctors advised men to avoid sex after meals, in the bathroom and with old or unappealing partners. In medieval Europe, impotent men believed they were under spells cast by witches, but also blamed their wives. Impotence was grounds for divorce.
In the Victorian era, many thought impotence was due to a depletion of sperm. Doctors cautioned against masturbation (a "waste" of sperm) and prescribed quinine, opium, digitalis and bleeding, to no avail.
In the late 1800s, French professor of medicine Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard proposed that injections of animal sperm might restore vitality. He tested the theory by injecting himself with an extract of dog and guinea pig testicles. His colleagues, who agreed the professor looked good for a man of 72, agreed to test the extracts on their patients. Soon the treatment, organotherapy, was all the rage.
Starting in the late 1910s, a few doctors went a step further, deciding to transplant whole testicles. In France, Serge Voronoff transplanted monkey testicles into the nether regions of more than 1,000 old men. In Kansas, John Brinkley ran a hospital that specialized in grafting goat testicles onto patients. At a California prison, Leo Stanley gave older inmates testicles of younger, executed prisoners.
Although many men claimed to feel rejuvenated by their testicular shots and transplants, few recovered their virility, and researchers continued their search. In the 1930s doctors experimented with surgical adjustment of penile muscles. In the 1940s and 1950s, they tried implants, inspired by the penile bones many animals have.
In the 1960s, an effective option finally arrived. A Georgia tire serviceman began work on a vacuum pump to treat his own impotence, which was ultimately approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1982.
The pump appeared just as several researchers began to identify drug treatments for impotence, albeit few with the showmanship exhibited by British doctor Giles Brindley. At a 1983 urology meeting, Brindley injected himself with a drug, phentolamine -- then took the stage, dropped his pants and shared his erection with his colleagues.
Brindley injected 33 drugs in his penis before finding one that worked, which may have rendered him slightly envious of the discoverers of Viagra. British researchers Ian Osterloh and Gill Samuels were developing a drug to improve blood flow to the heart when they realized that the drug, sildenafil citrate, was much more effective at improving blood flow to the penis -- and causing erections.
In Viagra's first month on the market, doctors wrote well over 500,000 prescriptions. Considering men's history of options -- crocodile hearts, prayer, testicular shots and grafts -- perhaps the blue pill's lasting popularity should come as no surprise.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Did you just get a monkey's genitalia transplanted to your privates or are you just happy to see me?
Did you just get a monkey's genitalia transplanted to your privates or are you just happy to see me?
Saturday, October 29, 2011
MEDICAL DOCTOR JOBS IN KENYA: MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES
Dadaab Programme
Medical Doctor
Main Tasks:
1. Carry out medical and surgical activities at the Dagahaley Hospital
2. Ensure the quality of medical activities in the hospital
3. Oversee running of medical clinics for chronic patients
4. Ensuring efficient use of resources - online pharmacy viagra and medical equipment utilization.
5. Monitoring, evaluation and reporting of medical activities in respective activities.
Requirements:
• Medical doctor with diploma/degree recognised by the government and registered and licensed by the Kenya Medical and Dentists Board.
• Knowledge of basic surgical skills
• 2 year experience working in a busy hospital setup as a medical doctor
• NGO experience an advantage
Send your CV, motivation letter, copies of relevant documents, mentioning on the envelope “Medical Doctor” to:
Only short-listed candidate will be contacted.
Medical Doctor
Main Tasks:
1. Carry out medical and surgical activities at the Dagahaley Hospital
2. Ensure the quality of medical activities in the hospital
3. Oversee running of medical clinics for chronic patients
4. Ensuring efficient use of resources - online pharmacy viagra and medical equipment utilization.
5. Monitoring, evaluation and reporting of medical activities in respective activities.
Requirements:
• Medical doctor with diploma/degree recognised by the government and registered and licensed by the Kenya Medical and Dentists Board.
• Knowledge of basic surgical skills
• 2 year experience working in a busy hospital setup as a medical doctor
• NGO experience an advantage
Send your CV, motivation letter, copies of relevant documents, mentioning on the envelope “Medical Doctor” to:
The Deputy Medical Coordinator
MSF-Switzerland, Kenya Mission
P.O. Box 25091 – 00603
Lavington, Nairobi
Deadline: March 13, 2010.Only short-listed candidate will be contacted.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Farmacia Cialis, Comprar Cialis, Cialis Online, Cialis
Farmacia viagra, Comprar cialis, Cialis Online, Cialis
ArtÃculo del cuerpo:
Cialis es un medicamento maravilloso tratamiento de la disfunción eréctil, sin embargo es necesario tener mucho cuidado antes de comprar en lÃnea Cialis Cialis de Farmacia. Echemos un vistazo de cerca a algunos de sus efectos conocidos y precauciones.
• Se sabe que un número muy pequeño de hombres han perdido la visión después de tomar Cialis. Esto ocurre porque el flujo sanguÃneo se bloquea el nervio óptico. Las personas que tienen cualquier tipo de problemas cardiacos, diabetes, presión arterial alta, colesterol alto o problemas en los ojos son más propensos a sufrir problemas de visión. Por lo tanto, se aconseja no tomar Cialis o si se solicita sólo después de consultar con un médico.
• Las personas que están bajo cualquier tipo de medicamentos (nitratos o bloqueadores alfa-drogas) no deben tomar Cialis. Esto se debe a la combinación de estos dos medicamentos puede resultar en súbita de la presión arterial, que puede conducir a un ataque al corazón o un derrame cerebral.
• Aunque Cialis puede tomarse con alcohol, la ingesta de una cantidad excesiva de alcohol debe ser evitado. Esto aumenta el riesgo de dolor de cabeza, mareos, aumento del ritmo cardÃaco o presión arterial baja.
• Los hombres mayores de 65 años son más propensos a experimentar los efectos secundarios de Cialis. Ellos deben verificar con un médico para conocer la mejor dosis de este medicamento.
• A pesar de los malos efectos de Cialis no debe considerarse en las mujeres, en general se recomienda no ser tomado por mujeres.
• La toronja y el jugo de pomelo es probable que se entremezclan con Cialis. Su combinación puede dar lugar a efectos potencialmente adversos.
• A veces el uso de Cialis conduce a la erección raro que no desaparece. Esta condición se conoce como priapismo. Cualquiera de tales condiciones deben ser tratados tan pronto como sea posible y duradero el daño puede ocurrir en el pene.
• Recuerde siempre Cialis no es una cura para la disfunción eréctil. Además, no protege al hombre oa su pareja de enfermedades de transmisión sexual, incluido el VIH.
ArtÃculo del cuerpo:
Cialis es un medicamento maravilloso tratamiento de la disfunción eréctil, sin embargo es necesario tener mucho cuidado antes de comprar en lÃnea Cialis Cialis de Farmacia. Echemos un vistazo de cerca a algunos de sus efectos conocidos y precauciones.
• Se sabe que un número muy pequeño de hombres han perdido la visión después de tomar Cialis. Esto ocurre porque el flujo sanguÃneo se bloquea el nervio óptico. Las personas que tienen cualquier tipo de problemas cardiacos, diabetes, presión arterial alta, colesterol alto o problemas en los ojos son más propensos a sufrir problemas de visión. Por lo tanto, se aconseja no tomar Cialis o si se solicita sólo después de consultar con un médico.
• Las personas que están bajo cualquier tipo de medicamentos (nitratos o bloqueadores alfa-drogas) no deben tomar Cialis. Esto se debe a la combinación de estos dos medicamentos puede resultar en súbita de la presión arterial, que puede conducir a un ataque al corazón o un derrame cerebral.
• Aunque Cialis puede tomarse con alcohol, la ingesta de una cantidad excesiva de alcohol debe ser evitado. Esto aumenta el riesgo de dolor de cabeza, mareos, aumento del ritmo cardÃaco o presión arterial baja.
• Los hombres mayores de 65 años son más propensos a experimentar los efectos secundarios de Cialis. Ellos deben verificar con un médico para conocer la mejor dosis de este medicamento.
• A pesar de los malos efectos de Cialis no debe considerarse en las mujeres, en general se recomienda no ser tomado por mujeres.
• La toronja y el jugo de pomelo es probable que se entremezclan con Cialis. Su combinación puede dar lugar a efectos potencialmente adversos.
• A veces el uso de Cialis conduce a la erección raro que no desaparece. Esta condición se conoce como priapismo. Cualquiera de tales condiciones deben ser tratados tan pronto como sea posible y duradero el daño puede ocurrir en el pene.
• Recuerde siempre Cialis no es una cura para la disfunción eréctil. Además, no protege al hombre oa su pareja de enfermedades de transmisión sexual, incluido el VIH.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
You can go off drugs......
Doctors are slaves to fashion in the same way as everyone else is.When new drugs are introduced, you get a surge of use, then a tailing off, and eventually the new drug becomes established and we all get used to it.
When it comes to new drugs, the Jobbing Doctor is a late adopter. I don't always rush into using the new agent, relying on others to try them with their patients.
Sometimes my therapeutic cautiousness means that my patients don't get the new cheap cialis as soon as they might; it does work both ways as I have rarely had to stop cheap cialis that has been withdrawn.
Take Calcium Channel blockers. They have been around for a long time now (greater than 30 years) and have not been my favourite group of blood pressure tablets. Especially the dihydropyridine group [all those drugs - there are 20 of them - that end in -ipine]. Over the last few years I have seen what seems like hundreds of patients with bad leg swelling (full of fluid), and I have often stopped the medication.
On one of my house calls today I have done it again.
I really feel that we overmedicate the elderly.
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