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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![CHAPTER IV. OF TFIE LUES VENEREA BEING THE CAUSE OF OTHER DISEASES. EVERY anima] may be laid to have natural tendencies to morbid adlions, wliicli may be conlidered as predifpofing caufes, and thefe may be called into aftion whenever the immediate caufe takes place, which may be fuch as to have no connedlion with thefe tendencies, and cannot therefore be confidcred as the caufe of the difeafe. One difeafe excites another, and therefore is fuppofed to be the fole caufe of it. Thus flight fevers, or colds, fmallpox, and meaflcs, become frequently the immediate caufe of fcrofula ; and certain derangements of tlie natural adtions of the body often bring on the gout, agues, and other difeafes ; but thefe difeafes will be always more or lefs, according to the conlHtution and parts; and the conftitutions will differ according to circumflances, which may be numerous 3 two of thefe, however, will be local fituation, and age. In this country the tendency to fcrofula arifes from the climate, which is in many a predifpofing caufe, and only requires fome derangement to be- come an immediate caufe and produce the whole difeafe. The venereal difeafe alfo becomes often the immediate caufe of other diforders, by calling forth latent tendencies to aftion. This does not happen from its being venereal, but from its having deflroyed the natural adtions, fo that the moment the venereal aftion and difpofition is terminated, the other takes place ; and I have feen in many cafes the tendency fo very ftrong, that it has taken place before the venereal has been entirely fubdued; for by purfuing the mercurial courfe the fymptoms have grown worfe ; but by taking up the new difpofition, and rendering it lefs adtive than the vene- real, the venereal has come into adion anew; and thefe effedts have taken place alternately feveral times. In fuch cafes it is a lucky circumflance when the two modes of treatment can be united ; but where they aft in op- pofition](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21172948_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
