The student's manual of venereal diseases : being the university lectures delivered at Charity Hospital, B.I., during the Winter session of 1879-'80 / by F.R. Sturgis.

  • Sturgis, F. R. (Frederic Russell), 1844-1919
Date:
1887
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Credit: The student's manual of venereal diseases : being the university lectures delivered at Charity Hospital, B.I., during the Winter session of 1879-'80 / by F.R. Sturgis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    chancroid, so you may always suspect the nature of a sore when located on the parts I have just men- tioned ; it is much more likely to be syphilitic; at any rate, always bear that point in mind. The course of a chancroid is always destructive, and if not properly treated may result in severe dis- figurement and loss of tissue. This is especially the case when the chancroid is seated upon the frsenum, or in the urethra just within the meatus urinarius. In the former place, perfora- tion and destruction of the frasnum is to be looked for; and what will perhaps surprise you, is a greater loss of tissue than you had at first counted upon, for here, particularly, the burrowing tendency of the chancroid is shown, and long before the fraenum is ulcerated through, the sore has attained to large di- mensions. In the latter place (the urethra) the sore extends rapidly, is difficult of treatment from its comparative inaccessibility, and upon cicatrization produces partial stenosis of the meatus, requiring sub- sequent surgical treatment. As I have already stated, these ulcers have a ten- dency to spread, and from their facility of auto-inoc- ulation, to multiply ; hence the treatment, to be effec- tive, must h& provipt and thorough. Under proper care the copious purulent secretion is diminished, the gray floor disappears, granulations spring up over the surface of the sore, and the undermined edges fill up level with the walls of the ulcer. But, bear this
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