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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![it propet however | to. fufpend my judgment, , and defired him to compofe his mind, bathe, the part, and wath it, cum melle, fale ammonia-) co €9 agua fitllatitia fambuci, by which he was. fpeedily cured. It was then evident, that this. diforder arofe from the fordes. being collected, . and retained in that part by the,contraction of. | the orifice of the preputium during the warm ; weather * Afterwards I faw fome eaftern ndbind ma-, nufcripts, wherein I found that even. fome of our own countrymen, who had travelled thi-, ther, were affected with the worft kind of ul-. cers under the preputium, without any venereal contagion. Hippocates, in his epidemics, eae men-; tion of. fome little ferpentine ulcers.on the ge-, nitals.», Celfus and Hiny alío give. us an ac-, * iem it neceffary, many other elits en be. NM duced in’ confirmation of this truth. I fhall mention only. one that was very remarkable, of a married gentleman,’ thirty years of age, who had at firíta fmall ulcer. on the > corona penis, of which little care being taken, itgrew wider ~ and deeper, with callous edges, exactly refembling a ve- nereal Cyancre: thefe encreafing unequally, formed three fchirrouvs. knots the fize of {mall puts; a phymofis enfued, witha filthy cadaverous difchargeX: a!] which were removed, and perfectly cured in three weeks, by an: injection of the pulvis Rancri, publifhed in the fecond volume of the Me- dical Effays of London.— That it could not be venereal, I was at firft affured by his own declara tion, and the experience of his wife, with whom he had commerce in the firft ftages | of this ulcer—the truth of which was fien evinced by the cure. E } count](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30525731_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
