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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    25 since we can have no other way of coming to a knowledge of any one distemper, than by its symptoms. The me- thod of laying down the exadt succession of them, will be impossible to be reduced to any certain and infallible rule, there being so great a variety of causes, that obstruct such a regularity j for which reason, I shall take notice of them in such order as they moft generally appear, which was on no account to he expedted from our ancient Writers, for as much as they mention every particular symptom by itself, not knowing but that they were independent of each other, and that each of them was a distinct disease. How- ever, the proving these symptoms were in being in these early times, will be as strong an argument to prove the antiquity of this distemper, as if they had been registered in the most exadt order of succession, because we shall, upon the stridlest examination, find they are peculiar to the Venereal Malady only. I have, I hope, sufficiently made it appear in my former letter, that the first degree of this disease was anciently known among us by the name of the Brenning, or Burning ; and that it was the same thing with what we call a Clap. The symptoms, which are usu- ally its concomitants, are the Phymosis and Paraphymosis, both which are accurately described, and proper remedies for them set down by the before-mentioned John Arden, Esq. in another manuscript of his, curiously written upon vellum, and beautifully illuminated. The imprudent method of cure of the first degree of the Venereal Malady, is sometimes at- E tende *