Volume 1
Practical observations on the natural history and cure of the venereal disease / by John Howard.
- John Howard
- Date:
- 1787-1794
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the natural history and cure of the venereal disease / by John Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![begga] may check, or totally obftrud, this eva-— cuation, and thereby occafion a congeftion or load in the glands of the breafts. When _ that has been once effected, a difpofition to irritation and inflammation is given. It will depend on other circumftances, whe- ther this affection will ever amount to a {cirrhus. The catamenia returning, there being no other caufe applied, it is very pollible that the fullnefs and congeftion may go off. But, if a blow is given, or if a fecond indammation arifes—if there is atendency to fcrophula, or what I would call a leprous taint, in either of thefe caies, the gland or glands injured, may enlarge more, be more painful, or remain in an indolent ftate, according to the violence or activity of the exciting caufe. And in this manner, many {cir- rni become troublefome, and even cance- rous to women, long before, what feems to me to be, the natural period of life for this difeafe. So in men, whenirritation and inflam- mation have been long kept up in the 5 2 proftate](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33292012_0001_0289.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
