Syphilis. A practical dissertation on the venereal disease ... / [Daniel Turner].

  • Daniel Turner
Date:
1732
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Credit: Syphilis. A practical dissertation on the venereal disease ... / [Daniel Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    « BuU may form itfelf in the Groin as well as « Abfcejfes on the Genitah^ from a Flux of the like acrid Humours, and the Taint may be “ communicated to the Man who fhall converfe with Women who are affe6]:ed with Ulcers, or Impoftumations on thofe Parts, being free at the fame time, as well from the Lepra as “ the Lues. By the fame way of arguing, our Hiftorian / would account for the PutreFadion taken no- ‘‘ tice of in the Body of John of Gaunt j as alfo of that Brenning fo often mention’d in the « old EngUJh Hillories, and what the antient « Phyficians, particularly John of Ardern and the empirical John Gaddefden have fuggefted upon this Head, muft be all taken (he thinks^ from the Arabian Phyficians, who in Exco- riations or Ulcers on the Penis or pagina^ mention the Chaud-Pis or Heat of Urine, which their Tranflators have render’d Ardor.^ Arfura.^2S\^ Incendium^ and accordingly threw up Injections (as we fliall obferve hereafter) « but thefe were furely Syinptonis rather of the Lepra than the Lues. This is the Sum of what our Hiltorian has brought to invalidate the Opinion that this Dif- eafe muft be oF longer Date than two Centuries, or about two hundred and thirty Years. ^ ^ Yet after all he has offer’d upon this SubjeCt, with all due Submillion to his judgsnent in An¬ tiquities of this Nature, I fear the fame in many Particulars ftill wants to be clear’d, and that, fome of our Diagnoflicks will be renderM hereby ftill more precarious than before j for if Ulcers on the Penis and Pudendum.^ difeharging a very corrofive and acrid Matter, much more if a Running.^ and that virulent.^ from the former, with Heat of Urine, may arife from other Caufes, as C 4 well
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