Observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea / [Samuel Foart Simmons].

  • Samuel Foart Simmons
Date:
1780
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Credit: Observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [8b5 1 mouth of the urethra; and fimilar in- {tances have now and then occurred to other practitioners: but, on the other hand, fome anatomifts of confiderable eminence go fo far as to confider thefe caruncles as purely chimerical ; and even the ‘celebrated Morgagni* informs us, that notwithftanding the great number of urethras he had infpected, he had only met with one inftance of a flefhy excref- cence. - We may therefore fafely venture to aflert, that the exiftence of caruncles js extremely rare: and when we hear people talking of the frequent cures they have performed, by deftroying fuch ex- crefcences, we may conclude, that they are either very ignorant and credulous themfelves, or that they with to impofe on the credulity of others. * De Sed, et Caufis Morb. lib. ili, epift. xlii. Inftead
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