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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    [ 18 ] ibme and diftrefling fymptoms is generally the confequence—either a phymofis, or a para- phymofis; the firft fignifying fuch a conftric- tion of the prepuce over the glans, as hinders its retraction ; the laft is fuch a conftriction of the prepuce back of the glans, as hinders it from being brought forward. The phymofis and paraphymofis is a thick- ening of the cellular membrane of the prepuce, in confequence of the irritation produced by the chancre, attended with confiderable and diffufed inflammation. In this condition it is often impracticable to apply dreflings to the chancre. A phymofis {hould therefore be prevented ifpoffible, and upon the leaft fign of a thick- ening of the prepuce, which is known by its being retracted with difficulty and pain, the patient mould be kept quiet, and the penis kept up againft the belly with a linen fwath, becaufe if fuffered to hang down, the extra- vafated fluids defcending and remaining in the prepuce, contribute often more to prevent it from being drawn back, than the inflamma- tion itfelf. When