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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![[ 269] | the fyftem which this difeafe has for years maintained, lofes its influence. It is no ‘longer the vis medicatrix nature, but leaves the body open and defencelefs to the formidable attacks of other difeafes. I remember an inftance of this in a per- fon aged 68 who took a wonderful deal of pains, to cure a kindly regular gout. When the difeafe left him, he grew de- bilitated, from being remarkably healthy and robuft. It could never be reproduced. The fymptoms of a difeafed proftate foon appeared, and in a few months proved fatal. Iam of opinion that the gland had, in this cafe, been enlarged long before the fymptoms, denoting a {cirrhus, appeared, and that thefe fymp- toms might have been kept off much longer, if the gout had continued regular, for he certainly had them not, before he altered the natural progrefs, of that difeafe. Whenever therefore an habi- tual difeafe prevails in an elderly perfon, who has long had the feeds of a difeafed proftate,it behoves the practitioner to pay attention to the revulfion and derivation fuch](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33292012_0001_0299.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
