A treatise on the venereal disease / by John Hunter.

  • John Hunter
Date:
1810
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease / by John Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    October he had connection again, and three days after she complained ol heat in making water, with a discharge and other symptoms of gonor- rhoea, which were violent. About the latter end of October her com- plaints were almost removed ; some only of the symptoms appearing and disappearing till January 1 784, when he had connection with her to try whether she could give it him, viz. three months after the second connection, and in fourteen days after this he had all the symp- toms of a gonorrhoea. April 29th he was not perfectly well, having a discharge with a pain in the perinaeum, and she also had a discharge. II this last attack in January 1 7 84, in him, was a gonorrhoea, then of course she must have had it; and also of course he must have lost his in the intermediate time, between the 9th of October 1783, and January 17 84; fer il he had had it also then, it could not have produced any effect upon him. It was impossible to say whether they had now the infection or not, for any trials upon themselves would prove but little, except one of them only had it so as to infect the other; but if both had it, no altera- tion could take place in either; as it could not be ascertained whether they had the disease or not; and as there were suspicious symptoms in both, when joined with all the circumstances, the attending surgeon and I thought it most prudent t.o treat them as if actually affected with a gonorrhoea. If it is true, as is asserted in the voyage round the world, that the venereal disease was carried to Otaheite, it shews that it can be long retained after ail ideas of its existence have ceased ; and when it is re- tained for such a length of time, it is most probably in the form of gonorrhoea.* In like manner, a venereal btiboe, if it could be kept a considerable time between the point of suppuration and resolution, would become indolent from habit, continue in that point of suspension, and remain perhaps almost incurable; such I think I have seen. * Vide page 14.
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