An essay on the gonorrhoea : with some observations on the use of opium, in the cure of that disease / by William Thomas.

  • Thomas, William.
Date:
1780
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Credit: An essay on the gonorrhoea : with some observations on the use of opium, in the cure of that disease / by William Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f ^4 ) ing thin, ‘and miic^h* in quantity, becomes thick, •and much lefs-^the inflamatory fymptoms arc thought to be gone^bUt during the firft five weeks, it is common, for the patient to make 'much coniplaint of an' acute pain near the bot- tom of the urethra, aTidf hr his groin ; complaints which are generally unnoticed by the furgeon, or ranked among the general-'conlequences of in- flammation ; it may oftentimes be fo, but I am 'inclined to think, it will frequently be found the fymptoi-ns of a very ferious change ; and that it prognofticates an effed to have taken place, -which it behoves-the furgeon to pay the utmofi: attention to : I believe it is often a fign that thfe venereal virus has caufed an excoriation in the .urethra, which, from it’s long retention upon, and conftant ftimulating, it is feme times capable of doing. But to return to the cure—Upon a qeflation of the inflammatory fymptoms, the purging, to- gether'with t,h(; cooling falts, are difcontinued; and noth'mg is fuppofed to remain now, but to eradicate the venereal virus, which being ac- complilhedj it is thought the running will ge- nerally ccafe of courfe,’as it is taken for grant- ed, that it even now depends upon that fli- mplus. Here