Academical lectures on the lues venerea / Translated from the Latin, with notes, by Jonathan Wathen.
- Herman Boerhaave
- Date:
- 1763
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Academical lectures on the lues venerea / Translated from the Latin, with notes, by Jonathan Wathen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![nations deprive themfelves of the preputium, and are from neceffity circumcifed, that fo they may be preferved from thefe diforders. Nay, even our own feamen experience thus. much whilft in thefe countries, that unlefs they daily wath the infide of the prepuce with a faline or acetous lotion, they are fpeedily affected with this difeafe. It is therefore not to be won- dered at, that phyficians, who have not at- ‘tended to thefe circumftances with great ac- curacy, have thought this to be the /ues ve- nékea. sid jul | | Notwithftanding what has been hitherto urged, it is evident that the era I have fixed is the very time the venereal difeafe was firft feen in Europe: this is ftill more confirmed by the concurrent teftimony of thofe authors who wrote at that time; nor do I know one of them of a different opinion. | See, for example, Jacobus Carpus, Fracaftorius, Fernelius, and all the Italians ;; whofe works on this fub- ject I lately collected and publifhed, with a preface of my own. Ye now underftand with me, that there. have been many ulcerous, {cabious, and le- prous difeafes, all of them contagious, affect- ing all the parts of the body at the fame time, - and of confequence the genitals; therefore let no one imagine a difeafe cannot exift, which - hath certain fymptoms in common with the ]ues venerea, though at the fame time t may be affirmed, that no one from thence can prove all the pathognomonic figns to have been the fame](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30525731_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
