Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    man had an attack of gonorrhoea, which extended up to the bladder, so that he was confined to his bed for three months. These cases of cystitis, or inflammation of the bladder, are not uncommon, and are a serious matter to people in situations. Another case was where a man had a gleet for ten years, and in spite of all treatment was unable to get rid of it. He married and infected his wife, who reinfected him with a virulent gonorrhoea; when this passed off the gleet passed away also. Ministers of religion, like girls and women in respectable walks of life, conceal these diseases, partly from shame and partly from self-interest, and the results are sometimes very sad. One of the worst I have seen was a vicar in a fair living, who was the son of a canon, and a fine, good-looking, athletic man all round. He con- tracted gonorrhoea with inflammation of the joints, and became a physical wreck, hobbling about with a stick. The parishioners were told it was a bad case of rheumatism.
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