A treatise on the venereal disease / by John Hunter.
- John Hunter
- Date:
- MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease / by John Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![C » ] INTRODUCTION. TWO motives liave induced me to publifh the following treatife. In the firft place, I am not without hope, that feveral new obfervations, contained in it, will be deemed worthy of the public attention 5 in the next place, I am defirous to have an opportunity of Ihewing from whom fome opinions, that have made their way into the medical world, originated. But, as much of the theory, which will often be referred to in the courfe of this work, is peculiar to myfelf, it feems necelTary to give an introduc- tory explanation of fome parts of it, in order that the terms ufed may be the more intelligible to the reader. I. OF SYMPATHY, i divide fympathy Into tv/o kinds; univerfal, and partiaL Univerfal fympathy is, an aiFedion wherein the whole conflitutlon iym- pathifes with fome fenfation or adlion. Partial fympathy is, an affedion v/herein one or more diflind parts fympathife with fome local fenfation, or adion The univerfal fympathies are different in different difeafes; but thole that occur in the venereal difeafe are principally two ; the fymptomatic fever, and the heftic fever. The fymptomatic fever is an immediate effedt of fome local injury, and feldom takes place in the venereal difeafe in any great degree under any of its forms, except in the cafe of a fwelled teflicle, which is itfelf an Inflance of a partial fympathy; the fymptomatic fever here, therefore, is ;xn univerfal fympathy ariling from a partial one. The hedlic fever is an univerfal fympathy with a local difeafe, whicli the confll- tution is not able to overcome. This takes place oftener and in a greater degree in the lues venerea than in any otlier form of the difeafe. B -I divide](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21172948_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
