A probationary surgical essay on some diseases reputed venereal : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by Robert Hamilton ... October 1820.

  • Robert Hamilton
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1820
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Credit: A probationary surgical essay on some diseases reputed venereal : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by Robert Hamilton ... October 1820. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These cases require to be treated with more than usual care. The Puriform Ophthalmia of infants, I need hardly in¬ troduce. That it may be produced by matter of vene¬ real origin cannot be doubted; but when thus excited it is not different fi’om the disease when otherwise induced. It is never now, in this country, regarded as venereal. Its most common cause appears to be the discharge of leucor- rhcea in the mother. In many instances, when thus produ¬ ced, I have seen it- spread to every member in the family. Discharges of a somewhat similar nature from the nose and ears are sometimes met with. AFFECTION OF PUDENDUM OF FEMALE CHILDREN. Tl'ie time is now gone by when a surgeon will testify a- gainst the supposed culprit in a case of rape, from the oc¬ currence of these appearances in a young female. The symptoms have been long recorded, though they appear for a time to have been forgotten. Bertin notices the dis¬ ease, and supplies us with several cases. There is an in¬ flammation of the living membrane of the vagina, witli swelling of the labia and neighbouring parts, and a copious discharge. There is sometimes excoriation, the formation of vesicles, wliich falling off leave foul ulcers underneath : these spread wide about the pudendum. The constitution¬ al derangement is great, and the complaint in young girls is often fatal. It occasionally appears epidemically. The treatment appears to be locally to soothe the parts, freely to open the bowels and to support the strength. . FINIS.
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