A treatise on the venereal disease / by the celebrated and ingenious Mr. John Hunter, of London ; abridged by William Currie.

  • John Hunter
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease / by the celebrated and ingenious Mr. John Hunter, of London ; abridged by William Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ - ] many local affections; as, blotches on the fkin, ulcers in the tonfils, thickening of the periofteum and bones. The local, or flrfl kind, may be called immediate, becaufe it arifes immediately upon the application of venereal pus.—Of this form v there are two forts, feemingly very different from each other, but not fo in fact. In the firft, there is a formation of matter without a breach in the folids, called a gonorrhoea. In the fecond, there is a breach or ulcera- tion in the folids, called a chancre. I am perfectly convinced, from numerous experiments and repeated obfervations of my own, that neither of thefe two ways in which the difeafe {hews itfelf, is owing to any thing peculiar in the kind of poifon applied, but to the difference in the nature, fituation and pro- perties of the parts contaminated. The readinefs with which the parts run into violent action, in this fpecies of inflam- mation, is greater or lefs according to the nature of the parts affected; which perhaps does not arife from any fpecific difference in the