A practical treatise on urethritis and syphilis, including observations on the power of the menstruous fluid, and of the discharge from leucorrhoea and sores, to produce urethritis ... A new nosological classification of the various venereal eruptions ... and a proposal of a substitute for mercury / by William Henry Judd.

  • Judd, William Henry, 1795-1868.
Date:
1836
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Credit: A practical treatise on urethritis and syphilis, including observations on the power of the menstruous fluid, and of the discharge from leucorrhoea and sores, to produce urethritis ... A new nosological classification of the various venereal eruptions ... and a proposal of a substitute for mercury / by William Henry Judd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AFFECTION OF THE EYE, TONGUE, ETC. 48] Affections of the tengue are every now and then met with as a syphilitic symptom, such as elongation and exquisite tenderness of the papille, dryness, stiffness, deep clefts, and fissures* of its skin, with large patches of white lymph thrown out under the covering membrane, especially if a patient with this disease imprudently heats his stomach with wine. A peculiar bad taste on its surface accompanies some vesicular eruptions,’ as in herpes circinatus, etc. Vide Case of John C——y, page 334. It appears to me that the venereal symptoms of the throat should be divided into two classes, the first containing those appearances that often ac- company the earliest form of eruptions; and the other such as are only usually met with in tertiary or quaternary eruptions and diseased bone. The earlier classes of affections of the throat do not appear to be very destructive, as they inter- rupt the comfort of the patient, rather than destroy by eating deep into the structure; and although they often last during weeks in continuance, yet they seldom are more than superficial maladies. First of the above, [ must mention a general red- * With this state of tongue, at times, there also exist clefts and fissures around the anus, and a generally dry and inelastic state of the skin and eyes; and not unfrequently during this state there is a falling off of the hair. . 2H