Clinical lectures on venereal diseases / By Richard Carmichael. Illustrated by engravings of the different forms of eruption. Reported by Samuel Gordon.

  • Richard Carmichael
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1842
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    they were succeeded by constitutional symptoms, and what the character of the eruption (if any) was, which followed them; great light would be thrown on the subject, and facts ascertained with stranger, particularly if an Irishman, perceives the most de- cided difference; affections of the throat and papular erup- tions are the most common, but with less severe nocturnal pains than in this country; the pustular form, the spreading syphilitic sore, rupia and disease of the bones and testes, &e. &c., are very seldom seen; rupia indeed, was, I found, only known from English descriptions of it. In the primary affections, I was much struck with the prevalence of condy- loma. While with us a venereal sore will cause frequently a great loss of parts, in Austria it throws out an exuberant growth. Out of the 2125 cases in the accompanying table, 494 were condylomata; of the three cases of bubo that died in the female wards, two were from gangrene and one from peritonitis. The term, general syphilis, applies only to cases where nodes, pains in the joints, and eruption are present. The 494 cases of condyloma were unaccompanied with gonorrhoea or chancre. Syphilitic iritis is a disease almost unknown in Vienna; I did not see three well marked cases of it during my stay, although in constant attendance on the Ophthalmic Chirurgies, as well as the syphilitic wards of both the civil and military hospitals. “ Inoculation is not allowed to be practised, as in Paris. I find, both upon inquiry from the heads of the Lying-in Hos- pital and from the statistics of above 27,000 births among the lower orders, now in my possession, that infantile syphilis is exceedingly rare; and Dr. Helm informs me, that abortions from that disease are hardly known. Of affections of the nose, &c., I saw none, and but one case of caries occurred in 215] cases. ‘“¢ Doctors Meyer and Giegl, the attending physicians of the male and female venereal wards, in their last Report to the