Clinical lectures on venereal diseases / by Richard Carmichael ... Reported by Samuel Gordon.

  • Carmichael, Richard, 1779-1849.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Clinical lectures on venereal diseases / by Richard Carmichael ... Reported by Samuel Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of’age, constitution, climate, and various external influential causes, the regularity with which the exanthemata pursue their usual course, in obe- dience, each to its peculiar laws, is truly surprising. Are we then justified in supposing that the vene- real poison is an exception to this general rule, and that one poison alone produces the great variety of eruptions which you now see so truly and admi- mirably delineated before you ? [Here Mr. Carmichael pointed to numerous drawings of the various forms of venereal erup- tions displayed on the walls of the lecture room]. Are we to suppose that the same poison which produces this mild papular eruption, that ends in desquamation of the cuticle, and then disappears almost spontaneously, also occasions this eruption of pustules and tubercles terminating in ulcers, some of which you see covered by those thick conical crusts, termed rupia—while others, having cast off* these coverings, exhibit deep and extensive foul surfaces spreading with a phagedenic margin ? Here, again, is another form of eruption, totally unlike the two others ; these drawings exhibit nei- ther papula;, pustules, tubercles, rupize, nor ulcers, with phagedenic margins ; but scaly spots, some flat and small, and others raised, particularly at their margins, both of a dark-red or copper co- lour. These are faithful delineations of syphilitic psoriasis and lepra, and exhibit the same charac- ter of scaliness from their very commencement, by