Meaning of psychophor | Babel Free

Definitions

A metal device that sits against the prostate and perineum, through which cold water is run, used to treat impotence and excessive masturbation.

historical, uncountable

Examples

“Locally cold-steel sounds may be introduced and allowed to remain⟳ for ten minutes three or more times a week, or the psychophor or Ultzman's short catheter may be used.”

“Occasionally the use⟳ of Winternitz's psychophor or cooling sound⟳ may be useful. This is particularly likely to be so if there is any neuralgia associated with the hyperesthesia. Injections of cold water into the urethra are sometimes a benefit, but in cases where this is thought to be useful the psychophor is to be perferred, for in addition to the cooling influence⟳ produced by the water circulating through the sound⟳, we have⟳ its mechanical influence⟳ the same as with an ordinary bougie, and its cooling effects can be regulated according to the duration of the application from a stimulating effect when very short to a depressing or antiphlogistic action if longer continued.”

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