A treatise on gonorrhoea virulenta, and lues venerea ... / [Benjamin Bell].

  • Benjamin Bell
Date:
1795
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Credit: A treatise on gonorrhoea virulenta, and lues venerea ... / [Benjamin Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    216 Or GonorrHea Sierra ~~ 7 Hy Venerea, by which fhe had become oe (i fymptoms of that difeafe, almoft all of which the now, imagined that fhe laboured under... _ ® A complete courfe of mercury, befides a variety of © other medicines, were given in the country, but no ad © vantage being derived from aes patient came un- || in imagination only, for I did not find, on the moft had-exifted from the firft. She acknowledged, that at © different times, both before and after marriage, fhe had the only difeafe of which fhe ever complained ; ; and ‘it’ 4 never was of long continuance. I endeavoured to convince her that fhe was perfe@ly | found, that fhe never had the difeafe, and that the mat- | tergwhich fhe had feen on her hufband’s linen,’ and || Which was the only foundation of her fufpicion, was | ither produced by his connection with her while fhe, Ch Hf! ai nature equally innocent. All this, however, would i] ved ineffectual, but I luckily had an At eee y power which brought conviction along with it, of a, Per en. Br fymptoms vari: which otherwife might have been of a the moft permanent nature. At the very time when fhe i fufpected her hufband to have given her the infection, — iy he had confulted me by letters, which I preferved, in | which he exprefled his aftonifhment at the fudden ap- \| pearance of a difcharge of matter from the urethra, ac-~ companied with heat and uneafinefs along the whole 4] courfe of the paflage from the glans to the bladder. He | never had been infected with Gonorrheea, and having had || no connection with any other woman than his wife of | whom he could not entertain the leaft fufpicion, he c cludes his firft letter by enquiring whether or not fu courfe with an infeéted perfon, and at the fame time wifhed that fuch medicines might be fent to him as — would as quickly as poffible put a itop to the ee |
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