An essay, on the symptoms and cure of the virulent gonorrhoea, in females / [Charles Armstrong].

  • Armstrong, Charles, 1750-1815
Date:
1783
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Credit: An essay, on the symptoms and cure of the virulent gonorrhoea, in females / [Charles Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    great abundance. A difficulty of urine feldom accompanies this fpecies of go¬ norrhoea, but ulcers are fometimes pro¬ duced in the vagina, which emit a thin virulent matter, that feldom fails to taint thofe who put themfelves in its way. This fpecies of the difeafe, but more efpecially the milder divifion of it, is not infrequently taken for the fluor al- bus, which is a complaint women are very liable to: and as the fair-fex are always unwilling to think themfelves injured by their greateft favourites, and ; often give ftrange accounts of their complaints, pra&itioners may fome- times be deceived in cafes of this kind. There are however fome circumftances, which properly attended to, will ena¬ ble us to pronounce with a degree of certainty, whether the cafe be venereal, / f yr or not. The fluor albus is conftantly accompanied with weaknefs, laffitude, lofs