Observations on the pathology of venereal affections / by Benjamin Travers.

Date:
1830
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Credit: Observations on the pathology of venereal affections / by Benjamin Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sides the surfaces remain sound, no constitu- tional disease is discoverable. But before we decide that the matter secreted in gonorrhoea and in syphilis have no relation to each other, we must shew that the gonorrhoeal secretion being absorbed into the circulation, as in the case of superficial sores, is incapable of pro- ducing constitutional, or as they are called secondary symptoms. Now I aver that such a connecting link between these diseases exists, and is palpable to observation. I have already described the symptoms arising from the ab- sorption of the gonorrhoeal matter, and it can- not I think be denied, that the resemblance is such to those of syphilis, as to establish their very intimate relation if not their identity. If a constitutional disease be traceable through the medium of gonorrhoeal sores in a subject hitherto immaculate, the next step in the in- quiry is to determine the operation of a con- stitution already tainted with the poison of gonorrhoea upon sores of this description. Are not the natural secretions of the bowels, the skin, and the kidney, influenced by the de- ranged state of the constitution ? Are not the morbid discharges from simple wounds and