Observations on the cure of gonorrhoea, and some other effects of the venereal virus / [Samuel Foart Simmons].

  • Samuel Foart Simmons
Date:
1794
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Credit: Observations on the cure of gonorrhoea, and some other effects of the venereal virus / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ [ I» ] In the generality of cafes, the inflammation goes on increafing for feveral days, commonly for a week or a fortnight: after which the fymptoms begin to abate, and the running, when left to itfelf, gradually leflens in quantity, and becomes whiter and thicker, till it at length totally flops. The colour of the mucus, however, is by no means a certain guide in thefe cafes, for in many patients it is of a yellowifli, and fometimes of a greenifli hue to the very laft ; but in general it becomes more confident towards the clofe of the difeafe. In women, the parts of generation being fewer and more Ample, the difeafe is lefs complicated than in men. Sometimes the vagina only is affected, and when this happens, the fymptoms are very trifling; but in general it comes on with an itching and fen- fation of heat as in the other fex, and is attended with inflammation of the nymphse, inflde of the la¬ bile, clitoris, carunculae myrtiformes, the orifice, and fometimes the whole of the meatus urinarius. Very often the deep-feated-glands of the vagina are affec¬ ted, and it is fometimes difficult to diftinguiffi the difcharge of a gonorrhoea from that of a fluor albus. From this defcription of the fymptoms and pro- grefs of the difeafe, it will eafily be perceived that the chief curative indications are to fubdue the in¬ flammation, and remove the virus that occafions it. There are praditioners, who, fuppofing that the body poffeffes powers to expel the virus, and that the difeafe has a certain period to run, through its feveral \
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