A treatise on the venereal disease / by John Hunter.

  • John Hunter
Date:
1810
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    that several of the crew were infected, which most probably must have happened in consequence of the poison being carried there by some of his own people. It is also mentioned by Cook, that the Otaheiteans ascribed the introduction of the disease to Bougainville; and we can hardly suppose that they would be so complaisant to our countrymen as to accuse Bougainville, when they must have known whether the disease was imported by Wallis or not, especially as they had no reason to be partial in favour of the people who accompanied the latter. But as we find in Cook’s last voyage, that the disease in every form is now there, and as we have no new intelligence of a gonorrhoea being since introduced, we must suppose that every form of the disease has been propagated from one root, which most probably was a gonorrhoea. If any doubt still remain with respect to the two diseases being of the same nature, it will be removed by considering that the matter pro- duced in both is of the same kind, and has the same properties, the proofs of which are, that the matter of a gonorrhoea will produce either a gonorrhoea, a chancre, or the lues venerea; and the matter of a chancre will also produce either a gonorrhoea, a chancre, or the lues venerea. That chancre is sometimes the consequence of gonorrhoea is rendered probable by the following case: A. B. had a gonorrhoea about the beginning of January 1788 ; the in- flammation went off, the discharge continued ; about a month after, a chancre appeared on the glans penis, for which he took mercury, and it got well in about a month. The following case is an instance of a gonorrhoea producing a lues venerea. A gemleman twice contracted a gonorrhoea, of which he was cured both times without mercury. About two months after each he had symptoms of the lues venerea; those in consequence of the first in- fection were ulcers in the throat, which were removed by the external application ofmercun ; the symptoms in consequence of the second were blotches on the skin, for which also he used the mercurial oint- ment, and was cured. We have too many examples of chancres pro- ducing the lues venerea. Since it should appear from the above, that the gonorrhoea and
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