Observations on venereal complaints, and on the methods recommended for their cure / [Thomas Gataker].

  • Gataker, Thomas, -1769
Date:
1755
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Credit: Observations on venereal complaints, and on the methods recommended for their cure / [Thomas Gataker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    matter flowing from ulcers in the paflage, or whether it is an increafed quantity of the natu¬ ral mucus oufing from the glands of the ure¬ thra in men, and of the urethra and vagina in women, arifing from an irritation excited by the venereal taint. For my own part, I think the fettling this point a very neceflary circum- ftance to the cure 3 and as I look upon the latter opinion to be true, I fhall endeavour to prove, that ulcers in the paflage are not pro¬ duced in a gonorrhoea. With this view give me leave firft to mention an inftance or two of fome appearances that occur in other diforders, and which, on fome accounts, may be deemed analogous to the difcharge in a clap. We daily fee inftances of perfons wrho from a cold have a running at the nofe, which for fome time is quite equal in quantity to what ufually happens in claps. Here, how¬ ever, we have no fufpicions of an ulcer in the nofe, whofe internal furface is not unlike that of the urethra. The fame maybe obferved from humours fettling on the internal mem¬ brane of the eye-lids, from whence tho* a watry humour generally flows, yet in many inftances the diicharge is purulent and very ' :i confiderable
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