A complete treatise, on the origin, theory, and cure of the lues venerea : and obstructions in the urethra, illustrated by a great variety of cases : being a course of twenty-three lectures, read in Dean-Stret [sic], Soho, in the years 1790 and 1791 / by Jesse Foot, surgeon.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1792
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Credit: A complete treatise, on the origin, theory, and cure of the lues venerea : and obstructions in the urethra, illustrated by a great variety of cases : being a course of twenty-three lectures, read in Dean-Stret [sic], Soho, in the years 1790 and 1791 / by Jesse Foot, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    persons are sensible of, as well now as formerly, is a con- sequent of the excoriated Urethra; for the salts contained in the urine must necessarily prick and irritate the nervous Fibrillae, and excite a heat in those parts of the Urethra which are divested of its natural membrane; which heat will always be observed to be more or less, as the salts are diluted with a greater or less quantity of urine; a thing I have often observed in persons that have laboured under this infirmity in hot weather, when the perspirable matter being thrown off in greater quantities, the salts bear a greater proportion to the quantity of urine, and thereby make its discharge at that time so much the more painful and troublesome. Thus we see this very early and plain description of this disease among us, to be entirely conformable to the latest and most exa<5t Anatomical Discoveries. Here is no tone of the Testicles depraved, according to Trajanus Petronius; no exulceration of the Parastatae, according to Rondeletius ; no ulceration of the Seminal Vessels, according to Platerus; no seat of the disease in the Vesiculae Seminales or Prostatae, according to Bartholin; nor in those parts and the Testicles at the same time, according to our countryman Wharton, and others, who have falsely fixed the seat of this disease, and whose notions, in this respedi, are now justly exploded; but a single and true description of it, and its situation, about