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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![^ The fecond fpecies of gonorrhea, which fre- men in their fleep; when they awake in the morning, and endeavour to make water, they cannot difcharge it without difficulty, becaufe the vifcous femen obftructs the paffage, which evils *. | The third fort is, that in venéreal dreams, which Mofes neverthelefs feverely forbids; and they who thus difburden themfelves, he pro- nounces impure till the evening. | The fourth. feems to be only a fimple dila- tation of the veffels. This (fpeaking of men) very rarely happens, nor do I remember. to have feen one example of it, although the an- * I apprehend, this being diftinguifhed from the fol- lowing, comprehends thefe circumftances omitted by our author, viz. that it is difcharged during fleep, without erection, or any kind of venereal fenfation whatever.: ‘That it happens alfo in the day as well as in the night, then intimated to the patient by a fenfe of fomething trick- ling through the urethra, occurring more frequently in the f intervals of {tool and urine than at the time of thofe eva- * ations ; for if it ever bethen expelled,we cannot diftinguifh CHANT it from the liquor proftatze otherwife than by its quantity. I have known this complaint continue fo long as to reduce the patient to a great degree of weaknefs, accompanied with a remarkable depreffion of fpirits. All thefe effects are generally the confequence of excefüve venery, by which the ducts of the vefcicule feminales lofe their natu- ra] rigidity, and become relaxed, flaccid, and incapable of retaining the femen; fuch perfons have feldom any venereal inclinations, but when they have, the poflibility of gratifying them is commonly prevented by a premature emiffion. clent](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30525731_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
