Gonorrhoea and urethritis / by G. Frank Lydston.

Date:
1892
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Credit: Gonorrhoea and urethritis / by G. Frank Lydston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Basing his views upon statistical investigation, Four- nier is inclined to a somewhat similar opinion. An interesting case bearing upon the relation of sexual excitement and individual predisposition to the causation of gonorrhoea came under my observa- tion some time ago: A young man of eighteen passed a night with a young woman whose virtue he vainly tried to over- come; on the following day he noticed some smarting on urination. In the evening of this day he copulated with a woman who had favored several of his friends at frequent intervals for some time; this act of copu- lation was the first in the lad’s experience. For the twenty-four hours preceding intercourse he had drunk considerable wine. On the third day after exposure, urethritis developed and ran a most virulent course, with all the accessories of severe chordee, epididymi- tis, and cystitis. The case proved very obstinate? lasting over a year. On. examining the woman from whom the disease was contracted, she proved to be healthy, aside from a slight leucorrhoea. The young man’s friends still continued to visit the cause of his his woes, but failed to contract the disease. In this case, prolonged and ungratified desire caused an irri- table state of the urethral mucous membrane, which favored inflammation; intercourse and the contact of irritating secretions did the rest. It is a striking fact, as bearing upon the origin of urethritis, that specific vaginitis is not frequently seen
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