Sketches of facts and opinions respecting the venereal disease / [William Houlston].

  • Houlston, William.
Date:
1794
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    Whether Gonorrhcea and Lues are not di- Jlintd difeafes. It has been afferted, and maintained by a variety of ingenious arguments, that gonorr¬ hcea and lues venerea do not take their rife from the fame, but from different kinds of virus; and that the matter produced by one difeafe, is incapable, if feparately applied, of producing the other. The lateft advocate for this doftrine is an ingenious medical profeffor in Edinburgh, and his arguments are principally thefe : 1 ft, It appears, by attending to the hiftory of the Venereal Difeafe on it’s firft introduc¬ tion into Europe, that the lues venerea was known many years before the gonorrhcea, as was alfo the cafe in China. In the ifland of Otaheite the fame thing obtains at prefent, for there the gonorrhcea is unknown^ though the lues venerea is exceedingly common among the inhabitants*. * This is the language held by Doctor Duncan in his Medical Commentaries, (vol. 6.) but I apprehend it is not quite corredt in point of fadf, as I am informed by my frend Mr. David Sam well, who was furgeon of Captain Cook's fhip the Discovery, that the natives, of all the newly difcovered iflands that he vilited in tbe South Seas had the difeafe in every form, and in fadl, had it before the voyages of Capt. Cook were even at¬ tempted.—I am glad indeed of this,opportunity of gra¬ tifying the zeal of my' ingenious friend, in a matter /
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