A practical treatise; or, second thoughts on the consequences of the venereal disease. In three parts, viz. I. On the simple gonrrhoea, gleets and other weaknesses ... II. On the virulent gonorrhoea ... III. On the venereal lues ... To which is annex'd, a vindication of the practice of salivating ... / [Joseph Cam].

Cam, Joseph, -1743

Date:: 1729

Credit: A practical treatise; or, second thoughts on the consequences of the venereal disease. In three parts, viz. I. On the simple gonrrhoea, gleets and other weaknesses ... II. On the virulent gonorrhoea ... III. On the venereal lues ... To which is annex'd, a vindication of the practice of salivating ... / [Joseph Cam]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$C37) And as this Difeafe is double, having al- © ready difpatched the Simple, we now come to the Virulent Gonorrhea, on which I fhall be as brief as the Largenefs of the Pield will allow. BON 2h 58 _ [have juft now given: you the Nominal Definition of this Diforder, let me there- fore come a little nearer to the Purpofe; and give you its Real one; which, how- ever, give me leave to obferve, is varioufly each Writer; but I fhall wave all ufelefs Difputes on this Affair, as foreign to the prefent Purpofe, and give you a fhort, ea- fy, and graphical Defeription of it, drawn from {tern Obfervation. | By a Virulent Gonorrbea is underftood,! _ an Involuntary Effufion of corrupt and con- _ tagious, purulent and foetid Matter, in _ Men by the Penis, in Women by: the Py- - denda, which isoften attended with Pain; and fometimes with Pleafure. pres Flax is Local at firfty it proceeds from the: as was formerly imagined, from the Teffes ; » but if it be deeply rooted, from the Cora pora Glandofa, as alfo from the Orifices of | _ the Veficule Seminales. The Ancients, and even the Moderns of fifty Years ftanding, » ee Dg 4. . Delieved’$

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