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Remarks on some of the opinions of the late Mr. John Hunter respecting the venereal disease; in a letter to Jeseph Adams / [Henry Clutterbuck].

  • Henry Clutterbuck
Date:
1799
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Credit: Remarks on some of the opinions of the late Mr. John Hunter respecting the venereal disease; in a letter to Jeseph Adams / [Henry Clutterbuck]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    way. The mouth was sore duririg a considerable part of the time* In July of the year following, the symptoms recurred precisely as before, and were removed by the same means. It was necessary to continue the mercury for six weeks. Upwards of three years have now passed without a further relapse. CASE IV, 1796. J. R. has been many times infedted with the venereal disease. Every year for five years past, he has had an eruption of copper-coloured spots, many of which have gone into ulceration, and spread to the size of a six-pence, discharging a bloody sanious matter.- Nodes are likewise discoverable on the tibiae. These symptoms have always yielded to a mercurial course, but not till the mouth has been kept sore for several weeks. s / CASE V. June, 1796. J. T. has extensive ulceration in the back part of the throat, covered with a yellowish white dough, with loss of substance, and abrupt edges. He has also scabby eruptions on several parts of the body. These symptoms are considered as the result of a venereal taint, contradfed about eight months ago. Mercury employed so as to affedt the mouth for some weeks, wholly removed the symptoms. A month had hardly elapsed, however, when the throat again ulce¬ rated, but without any eruption of the skin. The patient was-
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