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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    43 + OF THE/PaGG Nosis \1N . CDRA, the feat of Gonorrhea, When the running: proceeds from the extremity, or from within about an inch jand a half of the extremity of the penis,.as happens in perhaps nine cafes out-of ten, there will, for. the moft part, be much caufe to hope thata cure: will foon be cobtained.. Infuch inftances, when the patient is other- -wife in good. health, and when ‘he does not interrupt the-operationof the neceffary, Hira: improper conduct, the diféafe will not: commonly endure a fort- night Nay, a eureinfuch cireumftances is often ob- tained, in two-or three days: but, whenever ‘the low- er) parts of the urethra are affected s particular] yowhen , the proftrate gland and other parts about the-neck of the bladder ane, difeafed, the running, in-almoft-every inftance, proves obftinate. Even, our moft, powerful, ‘remedies in. other cafes of :clap,are, here doubtful in - .their- effeas. ., Hence no. certain opinion can be; form- “ed of, the ENGR aah the difeafe. Tae on) 9 deat: oi ort: . proves salvage tegious, IE ep the abi of read dy may be ;; but it ‘neceffarily proves much mone: fo when the, conftitution Jabours under any. general, af- fection, particularly ; when, ferophula prevails,; than when the patient is*’found. and healthy. Indeed a {crophulous taint-exiftingeven-with the moft fimple © eafe of clap, is apt torender itobftinate; Iam fomuch | convinced of this being the cafe, that in every in- ftance of clap occurring in {crophulous patients I al- ways give a guarded prognofis of the event. Cures — are fometimes indeed obtained eafily, even in patients -of this defcription; but, for the moft part, the dif- charge goes on for‘a sreat length of time, and refifts he: eflect of every remedy we employ to remove it: — -/Phis uncertainty which takes place in the treatment ‘of Gonor rhea, and the great length of time to which — the difcharge, infome inftances goes on, together with | the many? untoward and heswected ¢ occurrences | which often happen during the ‘cure, tend altogether — to render this branch of praéticé’ the mott diftrefsful — of any in bse Sneha pg of medicine, In’a great pro- |
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