The history of treatment of ED (Erectile Dysfunction) dates back to the Islamic Golden Age, when the first attempts were made by Muslim pharmacists and physicians to cure this embarrassing sexual disorder in men. The earliest medicine for treating the loss of penile erection in men was prescribed by them. Also, a wide range of therapies and techniques, like the single-drug method of treatment, were developed during this period to cure male infertility.
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Majority of drugs prescribed to patients included oral medications that were combined with food. However, some patients, who failed to respond to the medications appropriately, were treated using transurethral and topical methods. Thus, the problem of erectile disorder is believed to be first treated during the Islamic era (9th to 16th centuries). Some renowned Muslim pharmacists and physicians who contributed to this field include Avicenna, Ibn-al-Nafis, Averroes, Muhammad Ibn Zakariya, Ibn-al-Baitar, Thabit bon Qurra, and Zakariya Razi.
It was during late 1920s and early 1930s that an advance in treatments of erectile disorder was brought about in U.S. by Dr. J.R. Brinkley. He suggested the application of mercurochrome injections and implants of goat glands to restore patients’ ability to maintain and initiate penile erection. Surgeries by Serge Voronoff were also made popular as effective treatments of male infertility. But after his licenses for airing ads on the radio and for practicing medicine were revoked by the FRC and the Medical Board of Kansas respectively, he began to make recommendations using border-blaster radio stations. Penile implants eventually became famous as an effective cure for sexual dysfunction in 1970s.
It was in 1983 that the modern medications for curing ED became popular, after Giles Brindley, a renowned British physiologist, demonstrated his own penile erection induced by a phentolamine injection in front of the audience of America’s Urological Association. Phentolamine was the first modern medicine used in the history of treatment of ED. The invention of this medicine by Brindley paved way to invention of other drug therapies in future.
Unlike all other forms of ED that are caused by organic factors, PED (Psychological Erectile Dysfunction) is caused due to psychological reticence to sex in patient’s mind. Therefore, it is very difficult to diagnose and treat. More..
History Of Treatments For Erectile Dysfunction
