A probationary essay on blennorrhagia venerea ... / [Benjamin Bell].

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1802-1843.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A probationary essay on blennorrhagia venerea ... / [Benjamin Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ ON BLENNORRHAGIA VENEREA. 15 If Syphilis and Gonorrhoea were one and the same complaint slightly modified, we should ex¬ pect to meet with many more instances, in which the latter disease was succeeded by some of the dreadful sequelae of Lues. But we seldom (at least in this country) hear of Gonorrhoea, how¬ ever ill treated, being followed by any constitu¬ tional malady ; and in those rare cases where the system appears to be affected with dubious symp¬ toms, we have every reason to believe, that the pa¬ tient had suffered from previous chancres, or that the matter of Gonorrhoea had been itself absor¬ bed, thus giving rise to one of those complaints which Mr Abeiinethy * has named Pseudo- Syphilitic f. * Abeiinethy, Surgical observations on diseases re¬ sembling Syphilis, p. 5. London 1810. Mr Sawry, observes, 44 that he has met with some cases which compel him to be of opinion, that the poi¬ son of Gonorrhoea may produce Gonorrhoea or Chancre, and that it does produce the same effects as that of Chancre, when received into the circulating fluid.” These cases appear, at first sight, to be decidedly confirmatory of the propriety of Mr Sawry's notions on
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