A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhoea, vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph.
- Ralph, Joseph (Joseph E.)
- Date:
- [1840]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhoea, vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![long as any discharge from the urethra remains, and I will give you my reasons for this opinion. A married gentleman went to Lisbon from this coun- try, [England] and whilst at a distance from home, :£ departed, as too many do, from the path of virtue, and went astray. The Portuguese lady with whom he cohabited, gave him the Clap. He returned to '•' England, and, after the expiration of five months and three days after first observing the Gonorrhoea. he called on me, and asked whether he might re- turn home with safety to his wife. He said he had a little discharge, and wished to know, if, after having had it five months and three days, it were possible for it to be infectious. I replied—' Cer- tainly not; you may go home—there is no danger of your giving it to your wife.' He went home, and unfortunately gave his wife a severe Clap. I attended both the parties afterwards, and was ex- tremely sorry for what I had done ;—but I thought. •' at the time I gave the advice, that a Gleet was not infectious. But I think differently now,—and be- lieve that, after a continuance of several months, the discharge is infectious. Another instance.— A gentleman from the north •■ of England, and who had been recently married, came to me, and said that he had communicated a Gonorrhoea to his wife. Shocked at such an oc- •' currence, I said, ' How could you think of acting ; i n such a manner V ' Why, sir,' said he,' for four-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149070_0090.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
