A complete treatise, on the origin, theory, and cure of the lues venerea, and obstructions in the urethra, illustrated by a great variety of cases being a course of twenty-three lectures, read in Dean-Stret [sic], Soho, in the years 1790 and 1791 / By Jesse Foot, surgeon.

  • Jesse Foot
Date:
1792
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Credit: A complete treatise, on the origin, theory, and cure of the lues venerea, and obstructions in the urethra, illustrated by a great variety of cases being a course of twenty-three lectures, read in Dean-Stret [sic], Soho, in the years 1790 and 1791 / By Jesse Foot, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Se eee A. That which is termed Epidemic, therefore, might be con- sidered as an aggravated condition of any disease to which a country is liable, and also an aggravated condition of any- disease propagated in a country, when conveyed by in- fe&ted individuals, or any thing else which could convey it. It is a subjeét, if unaccountable, yet worthy of our at- tention, to reflect how diseases which are indigenous in certain specific parts of the world, are supported and pro pagated in climates, where, before the importation of ori- ginal infection, no such disease, or any thing similar to it, had ever been experienced. The same:disease is perceived the same in the symptoms, as well as in the event;. but the acting principle, the firft cause, the agency of infec- tion, the diftinct property, is as hidden from our compre- hension, as the most unexplored subject, or destderatum of knowledge, which we long to know, yet cannot discover. What does that infecting medium consist of which is con- veyed from one climate toanother opposite climate? How does it come to pass that a disease which is generated in a southern climate, can be conveyed to a northern climate, and there produce those effects upon the constitution, which, although in point of time it was many months in conveying, could not have been otherwise ever experienced by subjects of that northern climate? Philosophers
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