A treatise on the venereal disease. In three parts. I. An anatomical and physiological description of the genital parts of both sexes. II. An aetiological enquiry into the various stages of the venereal disease. III. A true and rational method of cure ... / [N.D. Falck].

  • Falck, N. D. (Nikolai Detlef), 1736-1783
Date:
1774
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease. In three parts. I. An anatomical and physiological description of the genital parts of both sexes. II. An aetiological enquiry into the various stages of the venereal disease. III. A true and rational method of cure ... / [N.D. Falck]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for a long time; but it ought to be known toov that of all the glands in the human body, there are none more tra&able and compilable, than thefe very glands. A bubo will eafily difappear root and branch, if properly managed; and I am forry to fay, but mull iniift upon it, that whoever has buffered much from this complaint, under attendance, has been ill treated; and I will add, if thefe glands were not of an uncommon good kind, nine out of ten of thofe who have efcaped from being ruined by cauftics, would have added to thofe, who have fallen a facrifice to that injudicious prac- tice* I lliall here conclude my defcription of the genitals of the mafculine gender, and proceed to the organs from whence we took our entrance into life. C H A P* II. Of the Genital Parts, of the Female Sex• ]E S T I fhould be cenfured, as being too _j communicative in what 1 am going to def- cribe, permit me reader, here to premife. Modeffy is that ornament of the female fex which doubly endears them to our love and effeem. It is a faithful monitor to chafhty, and illumi¬ nates with a celeffial beam of light, every other virtue of the beloved objedf of our bofom. It is that ineftimable jewel which entitles them to our refpedh It aids them inftead of ffrength againfl: the affaffm of their virtue, and ffrikes an awe